Cymothoe mabillei

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Cymothoe mabillei
Western red glider (Cymothoe mabillei).jpg
Western red glider (Cymothoe mabillei) underside.jpg
both in Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cymothoe
Species:
C. mabillei
Binomial name
Cymothoe mabillei
Overlaet, 1944 [1]
Synonyms
  • Cymothoe aralusMabille, 1890
  • Cymothoe anitorgis ab. leonisAurivillius, 1912
  • Cymothoe mabillei f. testuiOverlaet, 1944

Cymothoe mabillei, the western red glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana (west of the Volta River). [2] The habitat consists of forests.

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