Appias sylvia

Appias sylvia
A. s. nyasana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Appias
Species: A. sylvia
Binomial name
Appias sylvia
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio sylvia Fabricius, 1775
  • Appias (Glutophrissa) sylvia
  • Papilio eudoxia Cramer, 1782
  • Pieris rhodanus Ward, 1871
  • Appias bachi Suffert, 1904
  • Appias rhodope dopero Suffert, 1904
  • Appias rhodope ab. rhodopiana Strand, 1913
  • Appias rhodope var. tenuifascia Neustetter, 1926
  • Phrissura nyasana Butler, 1897
  • Appias rhodope f. luvuensis Joicey and Talbot, 1927
  • Appias perlucens f. masabae Stoneham, 1957
  • Appias sylvia luvuensis f. xerophyla Berger, 1981

Appias sylvia, the woodland albatross white or common albatross, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Males come to damp patches and both sexes are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Drypetes (including Drypetes ugandensis and Drypetes gerrardii), Phyllanthus and Ritchiea species.

Subspecies

References

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