Kallimoides
| Kallimoides | |
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| Kallimoides rumia depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Kallimoides Shirôzu & Nakanishi, 1984 |
| Species: | K. rumia |
| Binomial name | |
| Kallimoides rumia (Doubleday, 1849)[1] | |
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Kallimoides is a genus of butterflies in the Nymphalidae family. It contains only one species, Kallimoides rumia, the African Leaf Butterfly. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Bioko, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are attracted to sucking-trees and sometimes also to fallen fruit and banana-baited traps.
The larvae feed on Brillantaisa species.
Subspecies
- Kallimoides rumia rumia (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
- Kallimoides rumia jadyae (Fox, 1968) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Kivu, Tshopo, Tshuapa, Sankuru, Lualaba)
- Kallimoides rumia rattrayi (Sharpe, 1904) (Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, north-western Tanzania)
References
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- ↑ Kallimoides, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Nymphalinae Incertae sedis
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