Eurema senegalensis

(Eurema senegalensis)

Description

Eurema senegalensis, the forest grass yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Guinea (the Nimba Range), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland. The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum, Acacia, Cassia (including Cassia mimosoides) and Albizia gummifera

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Pieridae
Genus:Eurema
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