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Hamanumida daedalus (Guineafowl butterfly)

Synonyms: Hamanumida hesperus; Hamanumida icarus; Hamanumida melanthalis; Papilio daedalus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Guineafowl (Hamanumida daedalus) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family and only member of the Hamanumida genus. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone. (Natal, Swaziland, Transvaal, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Botswana, Tropical Africa (dry lowland areas), Southwest Arabia. The wingspan is 55–65 mm for males and 60–78 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round, with peaks in midwinter and summer. The larvae feed on Combretum and Terminalia species.
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Infraspecies

Hamanumida daedalus bicolor
Hamanumida daedalus daedalus
Hamanumida daedalus meleagrina
Hamanumida daedalus meleagris

Prey / Diet

Annona senegalensis (wild custard-apple)[1]
Combretum molle (Velvet Bushwillow)[2]
Tectona grandis (teak)[1]
Terminalia catappa (india almond)[1]
Vigna unguiculata (Common Cowpea)[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