Eurema (Terias) senegalensis ( Boisduval, 1836 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6067935

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFE6-FFE8-FF0E-FD23FC93FC78

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Plazi

scientific name

Eurema (Terias) senegalensis ( Boisduval, 1836 )
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12. Eurema (Terias) senegalensis ( Boisduval, 1836) View in CoL

WL: 22mm. This uncommon species occurs in semi-deciduous forest. Females are usually much lighter than males. It ranges along the African forests from Guinea-Bissau to Angola and Kenya and Tanzania west of the Rift valley. Larval host-plants are mainly Fabaceae ( Cassia , Acacia ).

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB) . Tombali: Mato de Cambeque ( PNFC) , 13.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29435); Mato de Amidara ( PNFC), 14.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29434).

Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Biombo, Bissau, Oio, Quinara. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1949), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2007).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pieridae

Genus

Eurema

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