Lachnoptera anticlia

Lachnoptera anticlia, the western blotched leopard, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and forest margins.

Lachnoptera anticlia
In Uganda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lachnoptera
Species:
L. anticlia
Binomial name
Lachnoptera anticlia
(Hübner, 1819)[1]
Synonyms
  • Issoria anticlia Hübner, 1819
  • Papilio laodice Cramer, 1777
  • Papilio iole Fabricius, 1781
  • Harma hecatea Hewitson, 1877
  • Lachnoptera iole var. afzelii Aurivillius, 1887
  • Lachnoptera iole f. androchroma Bryk, 1913
  • Lachnoptera ayresi ab. pallens Dufrane, 1945

Adults fly in the forest under storey as well as on top of the canopy. Both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle and are attracted to urine patches.

The larvae feed on Rawsonia lucida and Scotellia chevalieri.

References
  1. "Lachnoptera Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Heliconiinae (Nymphalidae) - Tribe Vagrantini


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