Catuna oberthueri

Catuna oberthueri
Catuna oberthueri male

Mbalmayo, Cameroon

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Catuna
Species: C. oberthueri
Binomial name
Catuna oberthueri
Karsch, 1894[1]

Catuna oberthueri, Oberthür’s Pathfinder, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family, named after the French entomologist Charles Oberthür. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

References

Catuna oberthueri depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
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