Cymothoe jodutta

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

Cymothoe jodutta
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cymothoe
Species:	C. jodutta
Binomial name
Cymothoe jodutta (Westwood, 1850)[1]
Synonyms
Harma jodutta Westwood, 1850 Cymothoe aralus Mabille, 1890 Harma ciceronis Ward, 1871 Harma cyriades Ward, 1871 Cymothoe seneca Kirby, 1889 Cymothoe ehmkei var. intermedia Gaede, 1916 Cymothoe ehmckei Dewitz, 1887

The larvae feed on Caloncoba species.

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  C. jodutta ciceronis female dorsal side
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  C. jodutta ciceronis female ventral side

Subspecies

• Cymothoe jodutta jodutta (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
• Cymothoe jodutta ciceronis (Ward, 1871) (Nigeria: east of Niger, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mayumbe)
• Cymothoe jodutta ehmckei Dewitz, 1887 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Tshuapa, Mai-Ndombe, Kinshasa, Kwango, Kasai, Sankuru)
• Cymothoe jodutta mostinckxi Overlaet, 1952 (Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Kivu and Tshopo)

References

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