Euphaedra zampa
Species of butterfly
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Euphaedra zampa, the green orange forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.[2] The habitat consists of primary wet forests.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euphaedra |
| Species: | E. zampa |
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Description
zampa Westw. (42 c)[under eleus] Forewing above unicolorous light bluish grey-green, with very narrow, sometimes interrupted, white subapical band and white apical spot; hindwing above similarly coloured, only occasionally tinged with red-yellow in the cell, and with very broad, white-spotted marginal band. Beneath both wings are red-yellow, at the distal margin more or less greenish grey; cell of the forewing with 3, of the hindwing with one black dot. Sierra Leone. — ab. ferruginea Stgr.[ now species Euphaedra ferruginea] only differs in having the hindwing above brown-red to beyond the middle and only close to the marginal band narrowly greenish. Old Calabar, Cameroons.[3] Images GBIF
Biology
Adults are attracted to fruit.
Taxonomy
Elevated to species by Michel Guillaumin [4]
Similar species
Other members of the Euphaedra eleus species group q.v.
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