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Description: | This specimen from William Hunter's collection has a label that appears to link it with Drury's 'Illustrations, etc' Volume 2 plate 19. However, it is not the same insect as depicted there. It is an example of *Cymothoe althea* (Cramer, 1776) [=amphicede Cramer, 1777].
This is a species of the wetter forests of West Africa between Guinea and Ghana, though not very common. Recent work on the DNA in this genus makes it likely that the subspecies *bobi* Collins & Larsen, 2000 of this taxon from Nigeria is actually a distinct species. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ARTHINSECT : LEPIDOPTERA : NYMPHALIDAE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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