Cymothoe egesta

Cymothoe egesta
	male C. e. egesta
	female C. e. egesta; both in Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cymothoe
Species:	C. egesta
Binomial name
	Cymothoe egesta; (Cramer, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
	Papilio egesta Cramer, 1775; Cymothoe confusa Aurivillius, 1887; Cymothoe egesta var. degesta Staudinger, 1890;

Cymothoe egesta, the common yellow glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland to sub-montane forests, including secondary growth.

Males mud-puddle and both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit. They have also been recorded feeding from the flowers of Cleistopholis patens.

The larvae feed on Rinorea species.

Subspecies

Cymothoe egesta egesta (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana to western Nigeria)
Cymothoe egesta confusa Aurivillius, 1887 (Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

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