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Euphaedra harpalyce

Synonyms: Euphaedra bipunctata (heterotypic); Euphaedra lakuma

Wikipedia Abstract

Euphaedra harpalyce, the Common Blue-banded Forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of lowland forests, riparian forests and secondary forests. Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.
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Infraspecies

Euphaedra harpalyce fasciata
Euphaedra harpalyce harpalyce
Euphaedra harpalyce spatiosa

Prey / Diet

Blighia sapida (akee)[1]
Blighia unijugata (Triangle Tops)[2]
Paullinia pinnata (bread and cheese)[2]
Sorindeia grandifolia[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit 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