Eurema senegalensis
Species of butterfly
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Eurema senegalensis, the forest grass yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Guinea (the Nimba Range), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.
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| Forest grass yellow | |
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| male | |
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| puddling Bobiri Forest, Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Eurema |
| Species: | E. senegalensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Eurema senegalensis | |
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The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum,[1] Acacia, Cassia (including Cassia mimosoides) and Albizia gummifera
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