Ariadne pagenstecheri

Ariadne pagenstecheri, the Pagenstecher's castor or scalloped castor, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, southern Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and the eastern and central parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of the margins of sub-montane and montane forests.

Scalloped castor
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Ariadne
Species:
A. pagenstecheri
Binomial name
Ariadne pagenstecheri
(Suffert, 1904)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ergolis pagenstecheri Suffert, 1904
  • Ergolis murina Bartel, 1905
  • Ergolis pagenstecheri f. aurantiaca Heron, 1909

The larvae feed on Tragia brevipes.

References
  1. "Ariadne Horsfield, [1829]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Biblidini". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-06-18.


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