Euryphurana

Euryphurana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euryphurana Hecq, 1992
Species:	E. nobilis
Binomial name
Euryphurana nobilis (Staudinger, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
Euryphura nobilis Staudinger, 1891 Euryphura (Euryphene) nobilis Euryphura nobilis viridis Hancock, 1990

Euryphurana nobilis, the Noble Commander, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of wetter forests.

Adults have been recorded attending arboreal nests of Crematogaster ants.

Subspecies

• Euryphurana nobilis nobilis (Sierra Leone, Liberia, eastern Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Congo, Central African Republic)
• Euryphurana nobilis viridis (Hancock, 1990) (Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: Shaba)

References

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• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 36 e