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Phalanta phalantha (Common leopard butterfly)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common leopard or spotted rustic (Phalanta phalantha) is a sun-loving butterfly of the nymphalid or brush-footed butterfly family.
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Infraspecies

Phalanta phalanta phalanta
Phalanta phalantha aethiopica
Phalanta phalantha granti
Phalanta phalantha luzonica

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  2.165 inches (.055 m)

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Cinnamomum verum (true cinnamon)[3]
Pemphis acidula[3]
Psiadia terebinthina[5]
Tristemma mauritianum[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Rayalu, M. B., Kumari, V. K., Naidu, M. T., & Atluri, J. B. (2014). Life history and larval performance of the Common Leopard butterfly, Phalanta phalantha Drury (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera: Nymphalidae). Int. J. Adv. Res. Sci. Technol. Volume, 3(3), 191-195.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 5Kaiser-Bunbury et al. 2009 Community structure of pollination webs of Mauritian heathland habitats. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 11, 241-254.
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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