Cymothoe fumana

Cymothoe fumana, the scalloped yellow glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Cymothoe fumana
male C. f. balluca Korup National Park, Cameroon
female C. f. fumana Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cymothoe
Species:	C. fumana
Binomial name
Cymothoe fumana (Westwood, 1850)[1]
Synonyms
Harma fumana Westwood, 1850 Cymothoe fumana var. eburnea Neustetter, 1916 Cymothoe fumana f. mitella Birket-Smith, 1960

Adults have been recorded feeding on fermented sap oozing from debarked felled trees.

The larvae feed on Rinorea species.

Subspecies

• Cymothoe fumana fumana (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
• Cymothoe fumana balluca Fox & Howarth, 1968 (Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Cymothoe fumana villiersi Fox, 1968 (Congo: Monts Chaillu)

Gallery

• 
  C. f. fumana male
  Kakum National Park, Ghana
• 
  C. f. balluca male
  Mbalmayo, Cameroon
• 
  In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana

References

1. "Cymothoe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini