Sevenia umbrina

Sevenia umbrina
Sevenia umbrina depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Sevenia
Species: S. umbrina
Binomial name
Sevenia umbrina
(Karsch, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
  • Crenis umbrina Karsch, 1892
  • Sallya umbrina

Sevenia umbrina, the Ochreous Tree Nymph, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Ethiopia, western Kenya, western Tanzania and northern Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests, forest margins and riparian vegetation.

Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit.

References

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