Nepheronia pharis
| Nepheronia pharis | |
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| N. p. pharis, mating Kakum National Park, Ghana | |
| 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 | |
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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 the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of undisturbed primary 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 the Congo, Uganda)
- Nepheronia pharis silvanus (Stoneham, 1957) (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
References
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- ↑ Nepheronia, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Colotis group
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