Mylothris chloris: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pieridae
- Genus
- Mylothris
- Species
- Mylothris chloris
- Scientific Name
- Mylothris chloris
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mylothris chloris
Mylothris chloris, the western dotted border or common dotted border, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of open woodland and dense savanna, but may also be found in disturbed rainforest areas and suburban gardens.
The larvae feed on Osyris abyssinicus, Englerina gabonensis, Phragmanthera capitata, Loranthus and Viscum species.
...Mylothris chloris in languages:
- English
- Western Dotted Border
- Japanese
- ヘリグロネキシロチョウ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Mylothris aburi
- Mylothris agathina
- Mylothris amhara
- Mylothris arabicus
- Mylothris asphodelus
- Mylothris atewa
- Mylothris aurantiaca
- Mylothris bernice
- Mylothris canescens
- Mylothris carcassoni
- Mylothris carolinae
- Mylothris cephisus
- Mylothris chloris
- Mylothris citius
- Mylothris citrina
- Mylothris continua
- Mylothris crawshayi
- Mylothris croceus
- Mylothris elodina
- Mylothris erlangeri
- Mylothris ertli
- Mylothris eximia
- Mylothris hecqi
- Mylothris interposita
- Mylothris jacksoni
- Mylothris jaopura
- Mylothris kiellandi
- Mylothris kilimensis
- Mylothris kiwuensis
- Mylothris knoopi
- Mylothris leonora
- Mylothris lucens
- Mylothris marginea
- Mylothris mavunda
- Mylothris mortoni
- Mylothris ngaziya
- Mylothris nubila
- Mylothris ochrea
- Mylothris phileris
- Mylothris pluviata
- Mylothris polychroma
- Mylothris poppea
- Mylothris primulina
- Mylothris rembina
- Mylothris rhodope
- Mylothris rueppellii
- Mylothris sagala
- Mylothris schoutedeni
- Mylothris spica
- Mylothris splendens
- Mylothris sulphurea
- Mylothris superbus
- Mylothris talboti
- Mylothris trimenia
- Mylothris yulei
- Mylothris zairiensis























































