Cymothoe jodutta

Cymothoe jodutta
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cymothoe
Species:	C. jodutta
Binomial name
Cymothoe jodutta (Westwood, 1850) [1]
Synonyms
Harma joduttaWestwood, 1850 Cymothoe aralusMabille, 1890 Harma ciceronisWard, 1871 Harma cyriadesWard, 1871 Cymothoe senecaKirby, 1889 Cymothoe ehmkei var. intermediaGaede, 1916 Cymothoe ehmckeiDewitz, 1887

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

The larvae feed on Caloncoba species.

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  C. jodutta ciceronis female dorsal side
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  C. jodutta ciceronis female ventral side

Subspecies

• Cymothoe jodutta jodutta (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
• Cymothoe jodutta ciceronis(Ward, 1871) (Nigeria: east of Niger, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mayumbe)
• Cymothoe jodutta ehmckeiDewitz, 1887 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Tshuapa, Mai-Ndombe, Kinshasa, Kwango, Kasai, Sankuru)
• Cymothoe jodutta mostinckxiOverlaet, 1952 (Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Kivu and Tshopo)

References

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