Euphaedra harpalyce

Euphaedra harpalyce


Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euphaedra
Species:	E. harpalyce
Binomial name
*Euphaedra harpalyce* (Cramer, 1777)^[1]
Synonyms
Papilio harpalyce Cramer, 1777 Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) harpalyce Romaleosoma lakuma Butler, 1870 Euphaedra harpalyce var. fasciata Staudinger, 1886 Romaleosoma spatiosa Mabille, 1876 Euphaedra losinga ab. impunctata Bartel, 1905 Euphaedra spatiosa ab. saphirina Neustetter, 1927 Euphaedra spatiosa ab. bipunctata Dufrane, 1933

Euphaedra harpalyce, the Common Blue-banded Forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of lowland forests, riparian forests and secondary forests.

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.

The larvae feed on Phialodiscus unijugatus, Paullinia pinnata, Blighia sapida, Lecaniodiscus cupanoides, Deinbollia fulvotomentella, Blighia unijugata and Allophylus species.

Subspecies

Euphaedra harpalyce harpalyce (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
Euphaedra harpalyce dowsetti Hecq, 1990 (Rwanda)
Euphaedra harpalyce evanescens Hecq, 1995 (Nigeria: Mambilla Plateau)
Euphaedra harpalyce serena Talbot, 1928 (Democratic Republic of Congo: Shaba, Zambia)
Euphaedra harpalyce spatiosa (Mabille, 1876) (Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
Euphaedra harpalyce sudanensis Talbot, 1929 (southern Sudan, northern Uganda)
Euphaedra harpalyce vana Hecq, 1991 (Bioko)

Gallery

Euphaedra harpalyce spatiosa
Euphaedra harpalyce spatiosa
female E. h. spatiosa
Kibale National Park, Uganda

References

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↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini

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