Euphaedra eleus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Euphaedra
- Species
- Euphaedra eleus
- Scientific Name
- Euphaedra eleus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Euphaedra eleus
Euphaedra eleus, the Eleus orange forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The habitat consists of primary forests and secondary forests with a closed canopy.
Adults mimic the day-flying moth Scopula helcita.
The larvae feed on Phialodiscus unijugatus, Deinbollia, Allophylus and Paullinia species.
...Euphaedra eleus in languages:
- English
- Eleus Orange Forester
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Euphaedra adonina
- Euphaedra alacris
- Euphaedra albofasciata
- Euphaedra alternus
- Euphaedra bergeri
- Euphaedra canui
- Euphaedra castanoides
- Euphaedra ceres
- Euphaedra dargeana
- Euphaedra delera
- Euphaedra demeter
- Euphaedra disjuncta
- Euphaedra eberti
- Euphaedra edwardsii
- Euphaedra eleus
- Euphaedra eupalus
- Euphaedra ferruginea
- Euphaedra francina
- Euphaedra harpalyce
- Euphaedra hybrida
- Euphaedra inanum
- Euphaedra intermedia
- Euphaedra janetta
- Euphaedra justicia
- Euphaedra losinga
- Euphaedra lutescens
- Euphaedra minuta
- Euphaedra modesta
- Euphaedra neumanni
- Euphaedra nigrobasalis
- Euphaedra ochrovirens
- Euphaedra olivacea
- Euphaedra orientalis
- Euphaedra permixtum
- Euphaedra phaethusa
- Euphaedra phosphor
- Euphaedra preussi
- Euphaedra procera
- Euphaedra rattrayi
- Euphaedra rex
- Euphaedra ruspina
- Euphaedra sarita
- Euphaedra simplex
- Euphaedra subprotea
- Euphaedra tenebrosa
- Euphaedra themis
- Euphaedra ueleana
- Euphaedra vicina
- Euphaedra viridicaerulea
- Euphaedra zampa







