Eurema senegalensis

Forest grass yellow
male
puddling Bobiri Forest, Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. senegalensis
Binomial name
Eurema senegalensis (Boisduval, [1836]) [1]
Synonyms
Terias senegalensisBoisduval, 1836 Eurema senegalensis f. bisinuataButler, 1876 Eurema senegalensis f. brendaDoubleday & Hewitson, 1847 Eurema senegalensis f. floricolaBoisduval, 1833 Eurema senegalensis f. ceresButler, 1886 Terias brendaDoubleday, 1847 Terias brenda f. maculataAurivillius, 1910 Terias brenda ab. marginataDufrane, 1947 Terias floricola ab. marginataDufrane, 1947 Terias floricola f. ceres ab. mariaeDufrane, 1945 Terias floricola ab. hylasStoneham, 1957

Eurema senegalensis, the forest grass yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Guinea (the Nimba Range), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. ^[2] The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum , ^[1] Acacia , Cassia (including Cassia mimosoides ) and Albizia gummifera

References

1. Eurema, Site of Markku Savela
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Subfamily Coliadinae". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-05-01.