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Euphaedra ceres (Fabricius, 1775)

Subspecies

  • [Euphaedra] ceres ceres (Fabricius, 1775)
    - lucille (Cramer, [1777])
    - lucullus (Herbst, 1792)
    - zeuxis (Westwood, [1850])
    - schultzei (Neustetter, 1927)

  • [Euphaedra] ceres lutescens (Hecq, 1979)

Adult morphologyWingspan35
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)1083
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)403
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
ALF:
Generally found in all types of forest
ALF
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWC:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending only to Cameroun, Congo, Gabon, CAR
WWC

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

  • Sapindaceae
    - Deinbollia

  • Sapindaceae
    - Deinbollia

Euphaedra ceres
Photographer: Wiebe Poppe

Records

All subspecies
subspecies ceres

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