Biology:Epitolina catori

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Epitolina catori
Red-patch epitolina (Epitolina catori catori) female underside Nyamebe Bepo.jpg
Epitolina catori catori, Ghana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Epitolina
Species:
E. catori
Binomial name
Epitolina catori
Bethune-Baker, 1904[1]

Epitolina catori, the red-patch epitolina, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] Its habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

  • Epitolina catori catori (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, western Cameroon)[3]
  • Epitolina catori ugandae Jackson, 1962 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5383724 entry