Hypolimnas salmacis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Hypolimnas
- Species
- Hypolimnas salmacis
- Scientific Name
- Hypolimnas salmacis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hypolimnas salmacis
Hypolimnas salmacis, the blue diadem, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the DRC, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron, U. trinervis and Fleurya species.
...Hypolimnas salmacis in languages:
- English
- Blue Diadem Butterfly
- Japanese
- サザナミムラサキ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Hypolimnas afra
- Hypolimnas alimena
- Hypolimnas anomala
- Hypolimnas antevorta
- Hypolimnas anthedon
- Hypolimnas antilope
- Hypolimnas aubergeri
- Hypolimnas aurifascia
- Hypolimnas bartelotti
- Hypolimnas bolina
- Hypolimnas catalai
- Hypolimnas chapmani
- Hypolimnas deceptor
- Hypolimnas deois
- Hypolimnas dexithea
- Hypolimnas dimona
- Hypolimnas dinarcha
- Hypolimnas diomea
- Hypolimnas errabunda
- Hypolimnas euploeoides
- Hypolimnas exiguus
- Hypolimnas inopinata
- Hypolimnas macarthuri
- Hypolimnas mechowi
- Hypolimnas misippus
- Hypolimnas monteironis
- Hypolimnas montrouzieri
- Hypolimnas octocula
- Hypolimnas pandarus
- Hypolimnas pithoeka
- Hypolimnas salmacis
- Hypolimnas saundersii
- Hypolimnas usambara
- Hypolimnas wallaceana





































































