Western blue beauty | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Protogoniomorpha |
Species: | P. cytora |
Binomial name | |
Protogoniomorpha cytora (Doubleday, [1847]) [1] | |
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Protogoniomorpha cytora, the western blue beauty, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. [2] The habitat consists of open spaces in primary forests and mature secondary forests.
The larvae feed on Acanthaceae species.
Protogoniomorpha cytora was first described as member of the genus Junonia , it was then reassigned to the genus Salamis . In the genus Salamis, P. cytora was considered to be a member of the Protogoniomorpha -group, and was moved accordingly into a separate genus following phylogenetic research, although findings point to a close relationship with the present genus Junonia. [3]