Hypolimnas salmacis

Hypolimnas salmacis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Hypolimnas
Species:	H. salmacis
Binomial name
Hypolimnas salmacis (Drury, 1773)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio salmacis Drury, 1773 Papilio omphale Stoll, 1790 Hypolimnas salmacis cissalma Suffert, 1904 Hypolimnas salmacis f. ochreata Joicey and Talbot, 1921 Hypolimnas salmacis salmacis ab. transiens Dufrane, 1953 Hypolimnas salmacis salmacis ab. interrupta Dufrane, 1953 Hypolimnas salmacis var. insularis Schultze, 1920 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses Collins, 1987 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses f. patra Collins, 1987 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses f. helenae Canu, 1994 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses f. penelope Canu, 1994 Hypolimnas salmacis var. thomensis Aurivillius, 1910

Hypolimnas salmacis, the Blue Diadem, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of secondary forests and disturbed environments.

Adult males mud-puddle. Both sexes feed from teak flowers. There are two female forms, one with blue and the other with an ochreous ground-colour.

The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron, Urera trinervis and Fleurya species.

Subspecies

• Hypolimnas salmacis salmacis (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola: Cabinda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)
• Hypolimnas salmacis insularis Schultze, 1920 (Bioko)
• Hypolimnas salmacis magnifica Rothschild, 1918 (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
• Hypolimnas salmacis platydema Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (southern Ethiopia, southern Sudan)
• Hypolimnas salmacis thomensis Aurivillius, 1910 (Sao Tome)

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