Eagris denuba (original) (raw)
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Species of butterfly
| Eagris denuba | |
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| E. d. denuba, Ghana | |
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| E. d. obliterata, Ethiopia | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Eagris |
| Species: | E. denuba |
| Binomial name | |
| Eagris denuba(Plötz, 1879)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
| Antigonus denuba Plötz, 1879 Eagris decolor Mabille, 1890 Eagris lucetia obliterata Carpenter, 1928 |
Eagris denuba, the cream flat, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan and Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males feed from bird droppings and occasionally mud-puddle.
- Eagris denuba denuba - Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon
- Eagris denuba obliterata Carpenter, 1928 - southern Sudan, Ethiopia
- ^ Eagris, funet.fi
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-11-12.