Euriphene aridatha

Euriphene aridatha
Female E. a. transgressa Bobiri Forest, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euriphene
Species:	E. aridatha
Binomial name
Euriphene aridatha (Hewitson, 1866) [1]
Synonyms
Aterica aridathaHewitson, 1866 Euriphene (Euriphene) aridatha Aterica feroniaStaudinger, 1891

Euriphene aridatha, the dark nymph, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon. The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

• Euriphene aridatha aridatha (Nigeria, western Cameroon)
• Euriphene aridatha camerunicad’Abrera, 2004 (Cameroon)
• Euriphene aridatha feronia(Staudinger, 1891) (Sierra Leone, Liberia, western Ivory Coast)
• Euriphene aridatha transgressaHecq, 1994 (eastern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo)

Torben Larsen developed a species numbering system for his 2005 publication Butterflies of West Africa. The subspecies is #976. ^[2] The 'Larsen' numbers have since been used with permission in A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. ^[3]

References

1. "Euriphene Boisduval, 1847" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN   978-87-88757-43-9.
3. Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. pp. 131–132. ISBN   978-615-02-5911-6.