Euphaedra gausape
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euphaedra
Species:
E. gausape
Binomial name
Euphaedra gausape
(Butler, 1866)[1]
Synonyms
  • Romaleosoma gausape Butler, 1866
  • Euphaedra (Gausapia) gausape
  • Euphaedra gausape f. similis Hecq, 2004

Euphaedra gausape, the western striped forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.[2]

Description

E. gausape differs at once from herberti in the entire absence of the white apical spot on the forewing (only the fringes are occasionally white), while the red costal band of the hindwing is very broad and covers cellule 7 from the base onwards and often also cellule 6 as far as the often simple deep black submarginal spots; no black spot at the base of cellule 7 on the hindwing beneath. - gausape Btlr. Forewing black above with broad yellow subapical band and broad golden-green hindmarginal spot; hindwing above golden green with broad black marginal band; the under surface yellowish green with black spots in the cells, black discal spots in cellules 2-6, black submarginal spots and black hindmargin on the forewing; hindwing in the middle broadly yellow, only in the cell and at the distal margin green or bluish. Ashanti to Cameroons. ab. extensa Bartel [now Euphaedra extensa Hecq, 1981] only differs in having the yellow subapical band of the forewing even broader and the green . parts of the upper surface more suffused with yellow. Cameroons. [3]

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

Adults feed on fallen fruit.

References

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  1. ↑ "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
  3. ↑ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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