Eagris denuba
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Eagris |
| Species: | E. denuba |
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| Eagris denuba (Plötz, 1879)[1] | |
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Eagris denuba, the Cream Flat, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan and Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males feed from bird droppings and occasionally mud-puddle.
Subspecies
- Eagris denuba denuba (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
- Eagris denuba obliterata Carpenter, 1928 (southern Sudan, Ethiopia)
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