Cymothoe fumana

Scalloped yellow glider
male C. f. balluca Korup National Park, Cameroon
female C. f. fumana Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cymothoe
Species:	C. fumana
Binomial name
Cymothoe fumana (Westwood, 1850) [1]
Synonyms
Harma fumanaWestwood, 1850 Cymothoe fumana var. eburneaNeustetter, 1916 Cymothoe fumana f. mitellaBirket-Smith, 1960

Cymothoe fumana, the scalloped yellow glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding on fermented sap oozing from debarked felled trees.

The larvae feed on Rinorea species.

Subspecies

• Cymothoe fumana fumana (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
• Cymothoe fumana ballucaFox & Howarth, 1968 (Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Cymothoe fumana villiersiFox, 1968 (Congo: Monts Chaillu)

• 
  C. f. fumana male
  Kakum National Park, Ghana
• 
  C. f. fumana male
  Kakum National Park, Ghana
• 
  C. f. fumana female
  Kakum National Park, Ghana

References

1. "Cymothoe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini