Harmilla

Harmilla is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. It contains only one species, Harmilla elegans, the elegant forester, which is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.^[2] The habitat consists of swamp forests with a dense understorey.

Harmilla
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subtribe:	Pronophilina
Genus:	Harmilla Aurivillius, 1892
Species:	H. elegans
Binomial name
Harmilla elegans Staudinger, 1891[1]
Synonyms
Harmilla hawkeri Joicey & Talbot, 1926

Adults are attracted to fallen fruit.

Subspecies

• Harmilla elegans elegans (Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Bas-Zaire)
• Harmilla elegans hawkeri Joicey & Talbot, 1926 (western Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Equateur, Uele, Ituri, Kivu)

References

1. "Harmilla Aurivillius, 1892" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 45