Cerautola crowleyi

Cerautola crowleyi, the Crowley's epitola, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] Its habitat consists of forests.

Cerautola crowleyi
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Cerautola
Species:
C. crowleyi
Binomial name
Cerautola crowleyi
(Sharpe, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Epitola crowleyi Sharpe, 1890
  • Cerautola (Cerautola) crowleyi
  • Epitola hewitsoni Staudinger, 1889
  • Epitola crowleyi holochroma Berger, 1981

The larvae feed on foliate lichen.

Subspecies
  • C. c. crowleyi (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)[3]
  • C. c. congdoni Libert & Collins, 1999 (north-western Tanzania, Zambia)[4]
  • C. c. holochroma (Berger, 1981) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)[5]
  • C. c. leucographa Libert, 1999 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)[6]

References
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Wikispecies has information related to Cerautola crowleyi.
  1. Cerautola at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. Williams, Mark C. "Subtribe Epitolina". Afrotropical Butterflies and Skippers. Archived from the original (DOC) on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  3. "Cerautola crowleyi crowleyi (Sharpe, 1890)". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  4. "Cerautola crowleyi congdoni Libert & Collins, 1999". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  5. "Cerautola crowleyi holochroma (Berger, 1981)". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  6. "Cerautola crowleyi leucographa Libert, 1999". African Butterfly Database. Retrieved 2020-03-27.


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