Ariadne albifascia

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Ariadne albifascia
White-banded castor (Ariadne albifascia) Nyamebe Bepo.jpg
in Ghana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Ariadne
Species:
A. albifascia
Binomial name
Ariadne albifascia
(Joicey & Talbot, 1921) [1]
Synonyms
  • Ergolis albifasciaJoicey & Talbot, 1921

Ariadne albifascia, the white-banded castor, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.The Biblidinae are a subfamily of butterflies with over 350 species worldwide, the vast majority of which are Neotropical. In the Afrotropical region there 30 species, in the genera Byblia, Ariadne, Eurytela, Neptidopsis, Sevenia and Mesoxantha. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (the southern part of the country and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and western Uganda. [2] The habitat consists of forests, especially open degraded habitats.

The larvae feed on the Tragia species T. benthami , T. volubilis , T. brevipes and Dalechampia ipomaefolia .

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References

  1. "Ariadne Horsfield, [1829]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Biblidini". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2012.