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Lachnoptera iole

Synonyms: Lachnoptera afzelii; Lachnoptera anticlia; Lachnoptera hecataea; Lachnoptera laodice

Wikipedia Abstract

Lachnoptera anticlia, the Western Blotched Leopard, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and forest margins. The larvae feed on Rawsonia lucida and Scotellia chevalieri.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Psorospermum orientale[1]
Rawsonia lucida (Forest Peach)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0