Common Blue-banded Forester Butterfly (Euphaedra harpalyce) at Mabira Forest

''Euphaedra harpalyce'', the Common Blue-banded Forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of lowland forests, riparian forests and secondary forests.

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.

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