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Genus of butterflies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kallimoides is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. It contains only one species, Kallimoides rumia, the African leaf butterfly. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Bioko, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
| African leaf butterfly | |
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| K. r. rumia Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Kallimoides Shirôzu & Nakanishi, 1984 |
| Species: | K. rumia |
| Binomial name | |
| Kallimoides rumia | |
| Synonyms | |
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Adults are attracted to sucking-trees and sometimes also to fallen fruit and banana-baited traps.
The larvae feed on Brillantaisa species.
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