Cerautola miranda

Cerautola miranda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cerautola
Species: C. miranda
Binomial name
Cerautola miranda
(Staudinger, 1889)[1]
Synonyms
  • Epitola miranda Staudinger, 1889
  • Cerautola (Cerautola) miranda
  • Epitola vidua Talbot, 1935

Cerautola miranda, the Wondrous Epitola, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in 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, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and forest edges.

Adults have been recorded feeding on the secretions of coccids and have also been observed settling on the shoots of climbers infested with aphids.

Both larvae and pupae have been found on the bark of Alstonia congensis.

Subspecies

References

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