Euphaedra medon

Euphaedra medon, the widespread forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and riverine vegetation.

Euphaedra medon
Male
Female
both E. m. medon
Bobiri Forest, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Euphaedra
Species:
E. medon
Binomial name
Euphaedra medon
Synonyms
  • Papilio medon Linnaeus, 1763
  • Euphaedra (Medoniana) medon
  • Papilio janassa Linnaeus, 1764
  • Romalaeosoma agnes Butler, 1866
  • Euphaedra medon ab. fernanda Fruhstorfer, 1903
  • Euphaedra medon var. innotata Holland, 1920
  • Romaleosoma viridinota Butler, 1871
  • Euphaedra medon ab. fraudata Thurau, 1904
  • Euphaedra medon neustetteri f. interpreta Niepelt, 1915
  • Euphaedra medon var. aequata Gaede, 1916
  • Euphaedra medon innotata ab. hollandi Dufrane, 1945
  • Euphaedra medon innotata ab. bipunctata Dufrane, 1945
  • Euphaedra medon innotata ab. alberici Dufrane, 1945
  • Euphaedra peculiaris Lathy, 1906
  • Euphaedra medon var. albula Thurau, 1904

The larvae feed on Phialodiscus unijugatus, Deinbollia fulvotomentella, Paullinia pinnata, Phialodiscus zambesiacus and Allophylus species

Subspecies
  • E. m. medon (Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • E. m. abouna Ungemach, 1932 (south-western Ethiopia)
  • E. m. celestis Hecq, 1986 (Gabon, Congo, Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • E. m. innotata Holland, 1920 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania: Kigoma and Mpanda)
  • E. m. fernanda Hecq, 1981 (Bioko)
  • E. m. fraudata van Someren, 1935 (Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya)
  • E. m. inaequabilis Thurau, 1904 (Uganda, western Kenya)
  • E. m. neustetteri Niepelt, 1915 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia)
  • E. m. pholus (van der Hoeven, 1840) (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone)
  • E. m. sanctanna Hecq, 1985 (Gabon)
  • E. m. viridinota (Butler, 1871) (Gabon)

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


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