Issoria baumanni

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Issoria baumanni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Issoria
Species:
I. baumanni
Binomial name
Issoria baumanni
(Rebel & Rogenhofer, 1894) [1]
Synonyms
  • Argynnis baumanniRebel & Rogenhofer, 1894
  • Prokuekenthaliella baumanni
  • Argynnis excelsiorButler, 1896
  • Prokuekenthaliella baumanni excelsior
  • Argynnis ugandaRöber, 1937
  • Issoria uganda
  • Argynnis (Boloria) excelsior ab. albericiDufrane, 1945
  • Brenthis excelsior katangaeNeave, 1910
  • Prokuekenthaliella baumanni katangae
  • Prokuekenthaliella baumanni orientalis

Issoria baumanni, Baumann's mountain fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. [2] The habitat consists of grassland, marshy areas and forest margins at high altitudes.

The larvae feed on Viola abyssinica .

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References

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