Euphaedra zampa, the green orange forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini The habitat consists of primary wet forests.
Description zampa Westw. (42 c)[under eleus] Forewing above unicolorous light bluish grey-green, with very narrow, sometimes interrupted, white subapical band and white apical spot; hindwing above similarly coloured, only occasionally tinged with red-yellow in the cell, and with very broad, white-spotted marginal band. Beneath both wings are red-yellow, at the distal margin more or less greenish grey; cell of the forewing with 3, of the hindwing with one black dot. Sierra Leone. — ab. ferruginea Stgr.[ now species Euphaedra ferruginea] 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.Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. Images GBIF Biology
Adults are attracted to fruit.
Taxonomy Elevated to species by Michel Guillaumin Guillaumin, M. 1976 Les Euphaedra du "groupe eleus Drury". Polymorphisme, variation géographique, spéciation [Lep. Nymphalidae] Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 81 (3-4) : 112-125
Similar species Other members of the Euphaedra eleus species group q.v.
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