Cymothoe fumana

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Cymothoe fumana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cymothoe
Species: C. fumana
Binomial name
Cymothoe fumana
(Westwood, 1850)[1]
Synonyms
  • Harma fumana Westwood, 1850
  • Cymothoe fumana var. eburnea Neustetter, 1916
  • Cymothoe fumana f. mitella Birket-Smith, 1960

Cymothoe fumana, the Scalloped Yellow Glider, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding on fermented sap oozing from debarked felled trees.

The larvae feed on Rinorea species.

Subspecies

  • Cymothoe fumana fumana (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
  • Cymothoe fumana balluca Fox & Howarth, 1968 (Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Cymothoe fumana villiersi Fox, 1968 (Congo: Monts Chaillu)

References

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  1. ↑ Cymothoe, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini


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