Euriphene gambiae

Species of butterfly

Euriphene gambiae

both male E. g. vera
Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Nymphalidae
Genus:  | Euriphene
Species:  |

E. gambiae

Binomial name
Euriphene gambiae

Feisthamel, 1850[1]

Synonyms

* Euryphena gambiae Feisthamel, 1850
* Euriphene (Euriphene) gambiae
* Diestogina gambiae f. deformata Neustetter, 1916

Euriphene gambiae, the Gambia nymph, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

## Subspecies

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* Euriphene gambiae gambiae (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, southern Guinea)
* Euriphene gambiae gabonica Bernardi, 1966 (southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mayumbe, Uele, northern Kivu, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Sankuru)
* Euriphene gambiae vera Hecq, 2002 (eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Euriphene gambiae.

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

Taxon identifiers

Euriphene gambiae|

* Wikidata: Q5411382
* Wikispecies: Euriphene (Euriphene) gambiae
* CoL: 3D22L
* EoL: 169203
* GBIF: 1907858
* iNaturalist: 423774
* Insecta.pro: 57574
* IRMNG: 11153700
* LepIndex: 163071
* NCBI: 2750384
* Open Tree of Life: 3120300

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