Mylothris poppea

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Mylothris poppea
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Mylothris poppea male - Ashanti Region, Ghana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Mylothris
Species:
M. poppea
Binomial name
Mylothris poppea
(Cramer, 1777) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio poppeaCramer, 1777
  • Mylothris dubiaAurivillius, 1907
  • Mylothris hilara f. limbonotataStrand, 1913
  • Mylothris hilara ab. confluaStrand, 1913
  • Mylothris alcuana ab. excavataStrand, 1913
  • Mylothris poppea hilara f. trimaculaTalbot, 1944
  • Mylothris poppea poppea ab. pseudospicaDufrane, 1947

Mylothris poppea, the Poppea dotted border, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo. [2] The habitat consists of forests, penetrating riverine and drier forest areas.

Butterfly A group of insects in the order Lepidoptera

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers, and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies. Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, which was about 56 million years ago.

Pieridae family of insects

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow, or orange in coloration, often with black spots. The pigments that give the distinct coloring to these butterflies are derived from waste products in the body and are a characteristic of this family.

Guinea country in Africa

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea, is a west-coastal country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea, the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish it from other countries with "Guinea" in the name and the eponymous region, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. Guinea has a population of 12.4 million and an area of 245,860 square kilometres (94,927 sq mi).

The larvae feed on Loranthaceae species.

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References

  1. ↑ Mylothris, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Tribe Aporiina


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