Sevenia umbrina

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Sevenia umbrina
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In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Sevenia
Species:
S. umbrina
Binomial name
Sevenia umbrina
(Karsch, 1892) [1]
Synonyms
  • Crenis umbrinaKarsch, 1892
  • Sallya umbrina

Sevenia umbrina, the ochreous tree nymph, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Ethiopia, western Kenya, western Tanzania and northern Zambia. [2] The habitat consists of forests, forest margins and riparian vegetation.

Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit.

References

  1. ↑ Sevenia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Epicaliini". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-06-19.


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