| Becker's creamy yellow glider | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Cymothoe |
| Species: | C. beckeri |
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| Cymothoe beckeri (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1858) [1] | |
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Cymothoe beckeri, or Becker's creamy yellow glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Uganda. [2] The habitat consists of forests.
Females mimic toxic day-flying moths, such as Oetroeda planax and Nytemera hesperia . Both sexes feed on fallen fruit.
The larvae feed on Macaranga and Caloncoba species.
Male from Mbalmayo, Cameroon
