Abantis elegantula elegantula (Mabille, 1890)

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 53

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scientific name	Abantis elegantula elegantula (Mabille, 1890)
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210. Abantis elegantula elegantula (Mabille, 1890)

WL: 20mm. This species appears to be more associated with forest than with savanna. The nominate subspecies reportedly occurs in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Subspecies A. e. decidua, whose validity is discussed by Mendes (2005), flies from Cameroon to PRC, CAR, DRC, south Sudan , western Kenya and Zambia. The caterpillars reportedly feed on Pterocarpus spp. ( Fabaceae ).

Previous references. Regions: Oio. Authors: Mendes et al. (2007).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.

Abbreviations

PRC	Charles University in Prague
CAR	Museo de Historia Natural La Salle

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Hesperiidae
SubFamily	Pyrginae
Genus	Abantis

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