Cymothoe hyarbita

Creamy yellow glider
male (dorsal and ventral) - Cameroon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cymothoe
Species:	C. hyarbita
Binomial name
Cymothoe hyarbita (Hewitson, 1866) [1]
Synonyms
Harma hyarbitaHewitson, 1866 Paradiadema horaDistant, 1880 Aterica buchholziPlötz, 1880 Cymothoe electrinosBirket-Smith, 1960

Cymothoe hyarbita, the creamy yellow glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^[2]

The larvae feed on Dichapetalum and Caloncoba species.

Subspecies

• Cymothoe hyarbita hyarbita (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, western Congo)
• Cymothoe hyarbita hyarbitinaAurivillius, 1897 (eastern Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Gallery

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  C. hyarbita hyarbita ventral side

References

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