Palla violinitens

Palla violinitens
Palla violinitens male

from Maka, CAR

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Palla
Species: P. violinitens
Binomial name
Palla violinitens
(Crowley, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Philognoma violinitens Crowley, 1890
  • Charaxes coniger Butler, 1896

Palla violinitens, the Violet-banded Palla, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of primary lowland evergreen forests.

The larvae feed on Bonomia poranoides and Clerodendron buchholzii.

Subspecies

References

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