Amauris damocles damocles ( Fabricius, 1793 )

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 : 31-32

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.6068121
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scientific name	Amauris damocles damocles ( Fabricius, 1793 )
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*107. Amauris damocles damocles ( Fabricius, 1793) View in CoL

WL: 42mm. A. damocles is reported for the first time from Guinea-Bissau, and is known to inhabit dry forest and forest-savanna mosaic. The nominate subspecies is distributed from Senegal to western Cameroon . Subspecies A. d. hyalites ranges from southern Cameroon to DRC and A. d. makuyensis occurs in western Tanzania. The caterpillars feed on Asclepiadaceae , as do those of the other species of the genus.

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió , 1 specimen (JB).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.