Amauris tartarea

Amauris tartarea

Monk

Mabille, 1876 Catalogue of Life

GBIF observations
466 GBIF
iNaturalist observations
110 iNaturalist
Taxonomic rank
Species
3 specimens
Description

Amauris tartarea, the monk or dusky friar, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia. The habitat consists of various types of forests.

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Status

COL status
accepted
Name status
acceptable
Nomenclatural code
zoological
Legacy synonyms
amauris tartarea
Non-butterfly
Off
Hybrid

Larval host plants NHM HOSTS