Cerautola crowleyi
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Cerautola |
| Species: | C. crowleyi |
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| Cerautola crowleyi (Sharpe, 1890)[1] | |
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Cerautola crowleyi, Crowley’s Epitola, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on foliate lichen.
Subspecies
- Cerautola crowleyi crowleyi (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Cerautola crowleyi congdoni Libert & Collins, 1999 (north-western Tanzania, Zambia)
- Cerautola crowleyi holochroma (Berger, 1981) (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda)
- Cerautola crowleyi leucographa Libert, 1999 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of Congo)
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