Euphaedra harpalyce

Euphaedra harpalyce, the common blue-banded forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of lowland forests, riparian forests and secondary forests.

Euphaedra harpalyce
female E. p. palyce
male E. p. palyce
both in Kakum National park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Euphaedra
Species:
E. harpalyce
Binomial name
Euphaedra harpalyce
(Cramer, 1777)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio harpalyce Cramer, 1777
  • Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) harpalyce
  • Romaleosoma lakuma Butler, 1870
  • Euphaedra harpalyce var. fasciata Staudinger, 1886
  • Romaleosoma spatiosa Mabille, 1876
  • Euphaedra losinga ab. impunctata Bartel, 1905
  • Euphaedra spatiosa ab. saphirina Neustetter, 1927
  • Euphaedra spatiosa ab. bipunctata Dufrane, 1933

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.

The larvae feed on Phialodiscus unijugatus, Paullinia pinnata, Blighia sapida, Lecaniodiscus cupanioides, Deinbollia fulvotomentella, Blighia unijugata and Allophylus species.

Subspecies
  • E. h. harpalyce (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
  • E. h. dowsetti Hecq, 1990 (Rwanda)
  • E. h. evanescens Hecq, 1995 (Nigeria: Mambilla Plateau)
  • E. h. serena Talbot, 1928 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Zambia)
  • E. h. spatiosa (Mabille, 1876) (Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • E. h. sudanensis Talbot, 1929 (southern Sudan, northern Uganda)
  • E. h. vana Hecq, 1991 (Bioko)

References
  1. "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini


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