Kallimoides

African leaf butterfly
K. r. rumia Ghana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Kallimoides
Shirôzu & Nakanishi, 1984
Species:
K. rumia
Binomial name
Kallimoides rumia
(Doubleday, 1849)[1]
Synonyms
  • Kallima rumia Doubleday, 1849
  • Kallima rumia amiru Suffert, 1904
  • Kallima rumia f. kassaiensis Niepelt, 1911
  • Kallima rumia jadyae Fox, 1968
  • Kallima rattrayi Sharpe, 1904

Kallimoides is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. It contains only one species, Kallimoides rumia, the African leaf butterfly. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Bioko, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to sucking-trees and sometimes also to fallen fruit and banana-baited traps.

The larvae feed on Brillantaisa species.

  1. ^ "Kallimoides Shirôzu & Nakanishi, 1984" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Nymphalinae Incertae sedis