Cymothoe fumana

Cymothoe fumana
Cymothoe fumana balluca male

Mbalmayo, Cameroon

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cymothoe
Species: C. fumana
Binomial name
Cymothoe fumana
(Westwood, 1850)[1]
Synonyms
  • Harma fumana Westwood, 1850
  • Cymothoe fumana var. eburnea Neustetter, 1916
  • Cymothoe fumana f. mitella Birket-Smith, 1960

Cymothoe fumana, the Scalloped Yellow Glider, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding on fermented sap oozing from debarked felled trees.

The larvae feed on Rinorea species.

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