Euxanthe eurinome, the common forest queen, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and dry and degraded forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euxanthe |
| Species: | E. eurinome
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Adults are attracted to carnivore dung and fruit.
The larvae feed on Afzelia africana, Deinbollia pinnata, Blighia and Phialodiscus species.
Subspecies edit
- Euxanthe eurinome eurinome (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Bioko, southern Cameroon)
- Euxanthe eurinome ansellica (Butler, 1870) (southern Cameroon, Gabon, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, eastern and central Uganda)
- Euxanthe eurinome birbirica Ungemach, 1932 (Uganda: north to the west of the Madi district, western Kenya, south-western Ethiopia)
- Euxanthe eurinome celadon Le Cerf, 1923 (Gabon)
References edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Euxanthe eurinome.
Wikispecies has information related to Euxanthe eurinome.
- ^ "Euxanthe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Euxanthini
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