Eurema senegalensis

Eurema senegalensis, the forest grass yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Guinea (the Nimba Range), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

Forest grass yellow
puddling
Bobiri Forest, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Eurema
Species:
E. senegalensis
Binomial name
Eurema senegalensis
(Boisduval, [1836])[1]
Synonyms
  • Terias senegalensis Boisduval, 1836
  • Eurema senegalensis f. bisinuata Butler, 1876
  • Eurema senegalensis f. brenda Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847
  • Eurema senegalensis f. floricola Boisduval, 1833
  • Eurema senegalensis f. ceres Butler, 1886
  • Terias brenda Doubleday, 1847
  • Terias brenda f. maculata Aurivillius, 1910
  • Terias brenda ab. marginata Dufrane, 1947
  • Terias floricola ab. marginata Dufrane, 1947
  • Terias floricola f. ceres ab. mariae Dufrane, 1945
  • Terias floricola ab. hylas Stoneham, 1957

The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum,[1] Acacia, Cassia (including Cassia mimosoides) and Albizia gummifera

References
  1. Eurema, Site of Markku Savela
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Subfamily Coliadinae". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-05-01.


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