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Amauris tartarea (Mabille, 1876)

Subspecies

  • [Amauris] tartarea tartarea (Mabille, 1876)
    - psyttalea (Plötz, 1880)
    - gabunica (Aurivillius, 1881)
    - bulbifera (Grose-Smith, 1887)
    - albidior (Staudinger, 1896)
    - mozarti (Suffert, 1904)
    - reata (Suffert, 1904)
    - intermedia (Grünberg, 1911)
    - bibundana (Strand, 1913)
    - tartaroides (Strand, 1913)
    - bassana (Strand, 1913)
    - psyttaloides (Strand, 1913)
    - vansomereni (Bryk, 1937)
    - lagai (Dufrane, 1948)
    - palisotea (Stoneham, 1958)
    - steropes (Stoneham, 1958)

Adult morphologyWingspan45
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)651
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)271
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
ALF:
Generally found in all types of forest
ALF
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWT:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to the coastal forests of East Africa
WWT

Biology

Flight period:

Records


1. ^ Larsen (2010)
2. ^ Larsen (2010)