Cerautola crowleyi

Cerautola crowleyi, the Crowley's epitola, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] Its habitat consists of forests.

Cerautola crowleyi
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cerautola
Species:	C. crowleyi
Binomial name
Cerautola crowleyi (Sharpe, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
Epitola crowleyi Sharpe, 1890 Cerautola (Cerautola) crowleyi Epitola hewitsoni Staudinger, 1889 Epitola crowleyi holochroma Berger, 1981

The larvae feed on foliate lichen.

Subspecies

• C. c. crowleyi (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)[3]
• C. c. congdoni Libert & Collins, 1999 (north-western Tanzania, Zambia)[4]
• C. c. holochroma (Berger, 1981) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)[5]
• C. c. leucographa Libert, 1999 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)[6]

References

1. Cerautola at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
2. Williams, Mark C. "Subtribe Epitolina". Afrotropical Butterflies and Skippers. Archived from the original (DOC) on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
3. "Cerautola crowleyi crowleyi (Sharpe, 1890)". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
4. "Cerautola crowleyi congdoni Libert & Collins, 1999". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
5. "Cerautola crowleyi holochroma (Berger, 1981)". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
6. "Cerautola crowleyi leucographa Libert, 1999". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.