Harma theobene
| Harma theobene | |
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| Specimen from Cameroon | |
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| Female, Kibale National Park, Uganda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Limenitidinae |
| Genus: | Harma Doubleday, [1848] |
| Species: | H. theobene
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| Binomial name | |
| Harma theobene Doubleday, [1848][1]
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Harma is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. Its one species is Harma theobene, the angular glider. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, from Cameroon to Angola and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique.[2] The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.
The larvae possibly feed on Caloncoba gilgiana, Buchnerodendron, Rinorea, Lindackeria (including L. schweinfurthii), and Dovyalis species.
Subspecies
[edit]- Harma theobene theobene – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria
- Harma theobene blassi (Weymer, 1892) – coast of Kenya, eastern Tanzania
- Harma theobene superna (Fox, 1968) – Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon, equatorial Africa, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Malawi, north-eastern Zambia
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cymothoe theobene.
- ^ "Harma Doubleday, [1848]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
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