Biology:Eurema senegalensis

Short description: Species of butterfly

Forest grass yellow
puddling Bobiri Forest, Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Eurema
Species:	E. senegalensis
Binomial name
Eurema senegalensis (Boisduval, [1836])
Synonyms
Terias senegalensis Boisduval, 1836 Eurema senegalensis f. bisinuata Butler, 1876 Eurema senegalensis f. brenda Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847 Eurema senegalensis f. floricola Boisduval, 1833 Eurema senegalensis f. ceres Butler, 1886 Terias brenda Doubleday, 1847 Terias brenda f. maculata Aurivillius, 1910 Terias brenda ab. marginata Dufrane, 1947 Terias floricola ab. marginata Dufrane, 1947 Terias floricola f. ceres ab. mariae Dufrane, 1945 Terias floricola ab. hylas Stoneham, 1957

Eurema senegalensis, the forest grass yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Guinea (the Nimba Range), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum, Acacia, Cassia (including Cassia mimosoides) and Albizia gummifera

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2503286 entry