Habitat and Ecology
Habitat and Ecology
The habitat of this species is forest edges, secondary forest and dense woodland rather than primary forest, and it seems to be less common in the wettest habitats (Larsen 2005). In Tanzania this includes habitats that occur from near sea level to 2,200 m (Kielland 1990). This butterfly utilizes the larval host plants Tragia benthami (Vuattoux and Blandin 1979) , Tragia brevipes (Kielland 1990) , Tragia impedita (Heath et al. 2002) and probably Ricinus species (Larsen 2005) all of which are from the Euphorbiaceae.
Systems
Systems
- Terrestrial
