Hypolimnas misippus Linnaeus 1764
Description
145. Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)
WL: 36mm. This is a highly ubiquitous butterfly that commonly inhabits agricultural areas, despite originally being a savanna element. It is known throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Arabia, most of the Oriental Region, Australia, Canaries, Caribbean and Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte state), occasionally migrating to eastern Mediterranean countries (Egypt, Lebanon and more rarely Turkey). The species is sexually dimorphic and females mimic the Danaid Danaus chrysippus. The caterpillars are quite polyphagous and feed on Amaranthaceae, Arecaceae, Convolvulaceae, Malvaceae, Moraceae and Portulacaceae.
Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, several specimens (JB). Gabú: Canjadude, 0 6.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29175).
Studied material. Biombo, Bissau, Bolama, Quinara, Tombali. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1949), Larsen (2005), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2008b).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: C; CS: LC.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/192215 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/593BFF8BFFEDFFE3FF99FF86FFE5FFA6 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/A50287F3FFCBFFC5FF0EFBB8FC9CFA19 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Hypolimnas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- misippus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hypolimnas misippus Linnaeus, 1764 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1764) Museum Ludovicae Ulricae Reginae. Salvius, Holmiae, [viii] + 720 pp.
- Aurivillius, C. (1910) Schmetterlinge gesammelt in Westafrika von Leonardo Fea in dem Jahren 1897 - 1902. Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale da Genova, 44, 502 - 506.
- Bacelar, A. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.