Biology:Hypolimnas salmacis

Short description: Species of butterfly

Hypolimnas salmacis
Both male H. s. salmacis, Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Hypolimnas
Species:	H. salmacis
Binomial name
Hypolimnas salmacis (Drury, 1773)
Synonyms
Papilio salmacis Drury, 1773 Papilio omphale Stoll, 1790 Hypolimnas salmacis cissalma Suffert, 1904 Hypolimnas salmacis f. ochreata Joicey and Talbot, 1921 Hypolimnas salmacis salmacis ab. transiens Dufrane, 1953 Hypolimnas salmacis salmacis ab. interrupta Dufrane, 1953 Hypolimnas salmacis var. insularis Schultze, 1920 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses Collins, 1987 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses f. patra Collins, 1987 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses f. helenae Canu, 1994 Hypolimnas salmacis ulysses f. penelope Canu, 1994 Hypolimnas salmacis var. thomensis Aurivillius, 1910

Hypolimnas salmacis, the blue diadem, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the DRC, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.

The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron, U. trinervis and Fleurya species.

Subspecies

• Hypolimnas salmacis salmacis (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola: Cabinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)
• Hypolimnas salmacis insularis Schultze, 1920 (Bioko)
• Hypolimnas salmacis magnifica Rothschild, 1918 (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
• Hypolimnas salmacis platydema Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (southern Ethiopia, southern Sudan)
• Hypolimnas salmacis thomensis Aurivillius, 1910 (São Tomé)

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  female H. s. salmacis, Ghana

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  H. s. thomensis, São Tomé and Príncipe

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5959721 entry