Euriphene atossa

Species of butterfly

Euriphene atossa

In Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Nymphalidae
Genus:  | Euriphene
Species:  |

E. atossa

Binomial name
Euriphene atossa

(Hewitson, 1865)[1]

Synonyms

* Aterica atossa Hewitson, 1865
* Euriphene (Euriphene) atossa
* Aterica amaxia Hewitson, 1866
* Diestogyna atossa ab. australis Aurivillius, 1912

Euriphene atossa, the Atossa nymph, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Combretum species

## Subspecies

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* Euriphene atossa atossa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mayumbe)
* Euriphene atossa angusta Hecq, 1994 (Bioko)
* Euriphene atossa australis d'Abrera, 1980 (western Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mongala, Uele, Ituri, north Kivu, Tshopo, Kasai, Sankuru, Lualaba)

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Euriphene atossa.

1. ^ "Euriphene Boisduval, 1847" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini

Taxon identifiers

Euriphene atossa|

* Wikidata: Q5411357
* Wikispecies: Euriphene (Euriphene) atossa
* CoL: 3CZZL
* EoL: 169158
* GBIF: 1907845
* iNaturalist: 891737
* Insecta.pro: 57571
* IRMNG: 10269002
* LepIndex: 163030
* NCBI: 2974316
* Open Tree of Life: 3120356

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