Eurytela hiarbas

Pied piper

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Eurytela
Species:	E. hiarbas
Binomial name
*Eurytela hiarbas* (Drury, 1770)
Synonyms
Papilio hiarbas Drury, 1782 Eurytela hiarbas var. angustata Aurivillius, 1894 Eurytela hiarbas ab. flavescens Aurivillius, 1894 Eurytela angustissima Strand, 1916

The Pied piper (Eurytela hiarbas) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family, found in Subsaharan Africa.^[1]

Wingspan: 45–50 mm in males and 48–55 mm in females. Has continuous broods peaking between November and March.^[2]

Larva feed on Tragia glabrata, Dalechampia capensis, and Ricinus communis.^[2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.^[1]

E. h. abyssinica Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 – Ethiopia
E. h. angustata Lathy, 1901 – Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape
E. h. hiarbas (Drury, 1770) – Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Tanzania
E. h. lita Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 – Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe

References

1 2 Eurytela, funet.fi
1 2 Woodhall, Steve. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.

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