Cymothoe fumana
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Cymothoe fumana | |
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male C. f. balluca Korup National Park, Cameroon | |
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female C. f. fumana Kakum National Park, Ghana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Cymothoe |
Species: | C. fumana
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Cymothoe fumana | |
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Cymothoe fumana, the scalloped yellow glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have been recorded feeding on fermented sap oozing from debarked felled trees.
The larvae feed on Rinorea species.
Subspecies
- Cymothoe fumana fumana (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
- Cymothoe fumana balluca Fox & Howarth, 1968 (Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Cymothoe fumana villiersi Fox, 1968 (Congo: Monts Chaillu)
C. f. fumana male
Kakum National Park, GhanaC. f. fumana male
Kakum National Park, GhanaC. f. fumana female
Kakum National Park, Ghana
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- ^ "Cymothoe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
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