Euphaedra zampa

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Euphaedra zampa
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euphaedra
Species:
E. zampa
Binomial name
Euphaedra zampa
(Westwood, 1850) [1]
Synonyms
  • Romalaeosoma zampaWestwood, 1850
  • Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) zampa

Euphaedra zampa, the green orange forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana. [2] The habitat consists of primary wet forests.

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Description

zampa Westw. (42 c)[under eleus ] Forewing above unicolorous light bluish grey-green, with very narrow, sometimes interrupted, white subapical band and white apical spot; hindwing above similarly coloured, only occasiohally tinged with red-yellow in the cell, and with very broad, white-spotted marginal band. Beneath both wings are red-yellow, at the distal margin more or less greenish grey; cell of the forewing with 3, of the hindwing with one black dot. Sierra Leone. — ab. ferruginea Stgr.[ now species Euphaedra ferruginea ] only differs in having the hindwing above brown-red to beyond the middle and only close to the marginal band narrowly greenish. Old Calabar, Cameroons. [3] Images GBIF

Biology

Adults are attracted to fruit.

Taxonomy

Elevated to species by Michel Guillaumin [4]

Similar species

Other members of the Euphaedra eleus species group q.v.

References

  1. "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
  3. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. Guillaumin, M. 1976 Les Euphaedra du "groupe eleus Drury". Polymorphisme, variation géographique, spéciation [Lep. Nymphalidae] Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 81 (3-4) : 112-125