Amauris damocles

Small monk
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Amauris
Species:	A. damocles
Binomial name
Amauris damocles (Fabricius, 1793)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio damocles Fabricius, 1793 Amauris (Amaura) damocles Papilio egialea Cramer, 1777 Amauris hyalites r. punctata Dufrane, 1948 Amauris egialia makuyensis Carcasson, 1964

Amauris damocles, the small monk, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of dry forests, Guinea savanna and disturbed areas in the rainforest zone.

This species is mimicked by one of the forms of Hypolimnas anthedon.

The larvae probably feed on Pergularia species.

Subspecies

• Amauris damocles damocles (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
• Amauris damocles makuyensis Carcasson, 1964 (western Tanzania)

References

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 25 as egialea

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