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Abisara gerontes

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Species of butterfly

Dark banded Judy
Illustration by Dru Drury
Ventral view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Abisara
Species: A. gerontes
Binomial name
Abisara gerontes
(Fabricius, 1781)
Synonyms
  • Papilio gerontes Fabricius, 1781
  • Papilio baucis Drury, 1782

Abisara gerontes, the dark banded Judy, is a butterfly in the family Riodinidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of tropical humid forests and lowland forests in hilly terrain.

Subspecies

  • Abisara gerontes gerontes (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, western Cameroon)
  • Abisara gerontes gabunica Riley, 1932 (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References

  1. Abisara, funet.fi
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Riodinidae". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
Taxon identifiers
Abisara gerontes


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