Cymothoe fumana
Cymothoe fumana | |
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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 | |
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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.
Subspecies
- Cymothoe fumana fumana (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
- Cymothoe fumana balluca Fox & Howarth, 1968 (Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Cymothoe fumana villiersi Fox, 1968 (Congo: Monts Chaillu)
Gallery
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C. fumana fumana from Korup NP, Cameroon
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Cymothoe fumana depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
References
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- ↑ Cymothoe, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
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