Nepheronia pharis

Nepheronia pharis
N. p. pharis, mating
Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Nepheronia
Species:
N. pharis
Binomial name
Nepheronia pharis
(Boisduval, 1836)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pieris pharis Boisduval, 1836
  • Pieris chione Doubleday, 1844
  • Lepteronia pharis silvanus Stoneham, 1957

Nepheronia pharis, the round-winged vagrant, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of undisturbed primary lowland forests and riverine forests.

  1. ^ Nepheronia, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Colotis group". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-05-04.