Kallimoides

Kallimoides
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]
Synonyms
  • Kallima rumia Doubleday, 1849
  • Kallima rumia amiru Suffert, 1904
  • Kallima rumia f. kassaiensis Niepelt, 1911
  • Kallima rumia jadyae Fox, 1968
  • Kallima rattrayi Sharpe, 1904

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

References

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