Cymothoe fumana | |
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male C. f. balluca Korup National Park, Cameroon | |
female C. f. fumana Kakum National Park, Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Cymothoe |
Species: | C. fumana
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Binomial name | |
Cymothoe fumana | |
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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.
Adults have been recorded feeding on fermented sap oozing from debarked felled trees.
The larvae feed on Rinorea species.