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Hypolimnas anthedon (Doubleday, 1845)

Subspecies

  • [Hypolimnas] anthedon anthedon (Doubleday, 1845)
    - dubius (Palisot de Beauvois, [1805])
    - anthedon (Doubleday, 1845)
    - damoclina (Trimen, 1869)
    - cerberus (Aurivillius, 1894)
    - daemona (Staudinger, 1896)
    - daemonides (Staudinger, 1896)
    - latepicta (Bartel, 1905)
    - poensis (Rothschild, 1918)
    - pseudodamoclina (Dufrane, 1945)
    - mariae (Dufrane, 1945)

Adult morphologyWingspan40
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)802
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)335
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:

Ecology

Host plants:

  • Asteraceae
    - Berkheya
  • Urticaceae
    - Fleurya
    - Urera
    - Urtica

  • Asteraceae
    - Berkheya
  • Urticaceae
    - Fleurya
    - Urera
    - Urtica

Hypolimnas anthedon
Photographer: Wiebe Poppe

Records


1. ^ Larsen (2010)
2. ^ Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011




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