Common Blue-banded Forester

Euphaedra harpalyce

''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.

The larvae feed on ''Phialodiscus unijugatus'', ''Paullinia pinnata'', ''Blighia sapida'', ''Lecaniodiscus cupanoides'', ''Deinbollia fulvotomentella'', ''Blighia unijugata'' and ''Allophylus'' species.
Common Blue-banded Forester Butterfly (Euphaedra harpalyce) at Mabira Forest Butterfly Common Blue-banded Forester  (Euphaedra harpalyce) seen at Mabira Forest, 26.06.2016 Blue-banded Forester,Butterfly,Euphaedra harpalyce,Mabira Forest,Uganda

Naming

*''Euphaedra harpalyce harpalyce''
⤷ ''Euphaedra harpalyce dowsetti'' Hecq, 1990
⤷ ''Euphaedra harpalyce evanescens'' Hecq, 1995
⤷ ''Euphaedra harpalyce serena'' Talbot, 1928
⤷ ''Euphaedra harpalyce spatiosa''
⤷ ''Euphaedra harpalyce sudanensis'' Talbot, 1929
⤷ ''Euphaedra harpalyce vana'' Hecq, 1991

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyNymphalidae
GenusEuphaedra
SpeciesE. harpalyce
Photographed in
Uganda