Euphaedra ferruginea
| Euphaedra ferruginea | |
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| Mbalmayo, Cameroon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euphaedra |
| Species: | E. ferruginea
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| Binomial name | |
| Euphaedra ferruginea | |
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Euphaedra ferruginea, the ferruginous orange forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria and Cameroon.[3] The habitat consists of forests.
Similar species
[edit]Other members of the Euphaedra eleus species group q.v. It was described as a form of eleus zampa — ab. ferruginea Stgr. only differs in having the hindwing above brown-red to beyond the middle and only close to the marginal band narrowly greenish. Old Calabar, Cameroons.
Gallery
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Euphaedra zampa var. ferruginea depicted in Exotische schmetterlinge von dr. O. Staudinger und dr. E. Schatz.
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Euphaedra ferruginea.
- ^ "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Staudinger, O. 1886 Exotische Tagfalter in sysmatischer Reihenfolge mit Berücksichtigung neuer Arten in Staudinger & Schatz, Exotische Schmetterlinge
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
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