Harma theobene

Harma
Specimen from Cameroon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Rhopalocera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Limenitidinae
Genus: Harma
Doubleday, [1848]
Species: H. theobene
Binomial name
Harma theobene
Doubleday, [1848][1]
Synonyms

Genus:

  • Amphidema Felder, 1861

Species:

  • Cymothoe theobene
  • Cymothoe theobene f. umbrina Joicey and Talbot, 1921
  • Cymothoe blassi Weymer, 1892
  • Cymothoe theobene nebetheo Suffert, 1904
  • Cymothoe theobene superna Fox, 1968
  • Cymothoe theobene ab. sordida Schultze, 1916
  • Cymothoe theobene ab. dualana Strand, 1914
  • Cymothoe theobene f. lutescens Poulton, 1922
  • Cymothoe theobene f. nigrolutescens Poulton, 1922
  • Cymothoe theobene f. nigrescens Poulton, 1922
  • Cymothoe (Harma) theobene f. jacksoni van Someren, 1939

Harma is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. It contains only one species: Harma theobene, the Angular Glider. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, from Cameroon to Angola and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.[2] The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

The larvae possibly feed on Caloncoba gilgiana, Buchnerodendron, Rinorea, Lindackeria (including Lindackeria schweinfurthii) and Dovyalis species.

Subspecies

H. t. superna from Gabela forest, Angola

References

  1. Harma, funet.fi
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
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