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Amauris niavius subsp. niavius Linnaeus 1758
Description
106. Amauris niavius niavius (Linnaeus, 1758)
WL: 45mm. The species occurs in degraded damp forest, dry forest and dense savanna. The nominate subspecies flies from Guinea-Bissau to Nigeria, extending through equatorial and Central Africa to Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. The caterpillars feed on Asclepiadaceae.
Previous references. Regions: Tombali. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Larsen (2005), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2008a).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.
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 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Amauris
- Species
- niavius
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amauris niavius subsp. niavius Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae. Vol. 1. Regnum Animale. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 824 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.