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Eurema (Terias) senegalensis Boisduval 1836
Description
12. Eurema (Terias) senegalensis (Boisduval, 1836)
WL: 22mm. This uncommon species occurs in semi-deciduous forest. Females are usually much lighter than males. It ranges along the African forests from Guinea-Bissau to Angola and Kenya and Tanzania west of the Rift valley. Larval host-plants are mainly Fabaceae (Cassia, Acacia).
Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB). Tombali: Mato de Cambeque (PNFC), 13.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29435); Mato de Amidara (PNFC), 14.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29434).
Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Biombo, Bissau, Oio, Quinara. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1949), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2007).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.
Notes
Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PNFC
- Scientific name authorship
- Boisduval
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pieridae
- Genus
- Eurema
- Species
- senegalensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eurema (Terias) senegalensis Boisduval, 1836 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Boisduval, J. B. A. (1836) Suites a Buffon. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Species general des Lepidopteres. Vol. 1. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, [iv] + xii + 690 + 6 pp., 24 pls.
- 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.
- Mendes, L. F., Bivar-de-Sousa, A. & Consciencia, S. (2007) Novos dados sobre os lepidopteros diurnos (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea) da Guine-Bissau. I - Introducao e Hesperiidae. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 41, 209 - 221.