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Hypolimnas anthedon (Doubleday, 1845)
Subspecies
[
Hypolimnas
] anthedon anthedon (Doubleday, 1845)
-
dubius
(Palisot de Beauvois, [1805])
-
anthedon
(Doubleday, 1845)
-
damoclina
(Trimen, 1869)
-
cerberus
(Aurivillius, 1894)
-
daemona
(Staudinger, 1896)
-
daemonides
(Staudinger, 1896)
-
latepicta
(Bartel, 1905)
-
poensis
(Rothschild, 1918)
-
pseudodamoclina
(Dufrane, 1945)
-
mariae
(Dufrane, 1945)
Adult morphology
Wingspan
40
Literature references
Species number (Larsen 2005)
802
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)
335
Habitat
Habitat preference
[1]
ALF
:
Generally found in all types of forest
ALF
Distribution
Geographical distribution
[2]
WWT
:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to the coastal forests of East Africa
WWT
Biology
Flight period:
Ecology
Host plants:
Asteraceae
- Berkheya
Urticaceae
- Fleurya
- Urera
- Urtica
Asteraceae
- Berkheya
Urticaceae
- Fleurya
- Urera
- Urtica
Hypolimnas anthedon
Photographer: Wiebe Poppe
Records
1.
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Larsen (2010)
2.
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Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011