Palla decius
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Palla |
Species: | P. decius
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Binomial name | |
Palla decius | |
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Palla decius, the white-banded palla, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Angola.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.
The larvae feed on Calycobolus africanus, Bonomia poranoides and Clerodendron buchholzii.
References
[edit]- ^ "Palla Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Tribe Pallini
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