Nepheronia pharis

Nepheronia pharis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Nepheronia
Species:	N. pharis
Binomial name
Nepheronia pharis (Boisduval, 1836)[1]
Synonyms
Pieris pharis Boisduval, 1836 Pieris chione Doubleday, 1844 Lepteronia pharis silvanus Stoneham, 1957

Nepheronia pharis, the Round-winged Vagrant, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of undisturbed primar) lowland forests and riverine forests.

Subspecies

• Nepheronia pharis pharis (Sierra Leone, coast and north-eastern Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda)
• Nepheronia pharis silvanus (Stoneham, 1957) (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

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