Cerautola miranda

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Cerautola miranda
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cerautola
Species:
C. miranda
Binomial name
Cerautola miranda
(Staudinger, 1889) [1]
Synonyms
  • Epitola mirandaStaudinger, 1889
  • Cerautola (Cerautola) miranda
  • Epitola viduaTalbot, 1935

Cerautola miranda, the wondrous epitola, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. [2] Its habitat consists of forests and forest edges.

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References

  1. Cerautola at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. Williams, Mark C. "Subtribe Epitolina". Afrotropical Butterflies and Skippers. Archived from the original (DOC) on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  3. "Cerautola miranda miranda (Staudinger, 1889)". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  4. "Cerautola miranda vidua (Talbot, 1935)". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.