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Species of butterfly
Mylothris chloris
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male M. c. chloris
Gambia
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Lepidoptera
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Family:
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Pieridae
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Genus:
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Mylothris
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Species:
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M. chloris
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Binomial name
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Mylothris chloris
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Synonyms
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- Papilio chloris Fabricius, 1775
- Papilio thermopylae Cramer, [1779]
- Mylothris afraorientalis Stoneham, 1937
- Mylothris analis Aurivillius, 1907
- Mylothris chloris f. nox Talbot, 1944
- Mylothris agathina ab. wansoni Dufrane, 1947
- Mylothris clarissa Butler, 1888
- Mylothris wintoniana Sharpe, 1891
- Mylothris afraorientalis f. ochrascens Stoneham, 1937
- Mylothris chloris f. rubrochracea Stoneham, 1937
- Mylothris chloris f. ochreata Talbot, 1944
- Mylothris chloris f. melanoflava Stoneham, 1957
- Mylothris chloris f. dentigera Stoneham, 1957
- Mylothris afraorientalis f. admeta Stoneham, 1957
- Mylothris afraorientalis f. pyrina Stoneham, 1957
- Mylothris afraorientalis f. agathinaria Stoneham, 1957
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Mylothris chloris, the western dotted border or common dotted border, is a
butterfly in the family
Pieridae. It is found in
Senegal,
the Gambia,
Mali,
Guinea-Bissau,
Guinea,
Sierra Leone,
Liberia,
Ivory Coast,
Burkina Faso,
Ghana,
Togo,
Benin,
Nigeria,
Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea,
Gabon, the
Republic of the Congo, the
Central African Republic, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Sudan,
Uganda,
Kenya and
Tanzania.
[2] The habitat consists of open woodland and dense savanna, but may also be found in disturbed rainforest areas and suburban gardens.
The larvae feed on
Osyris abyssinicus,
Englerina gabonensis,
Phragmanthera capitata,
Loranthus and
Viscum species.
Subspecies
- Mylothris chloris chloris (Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, north-western Tanzania)
- Mylothris chloris clarissa Butler, 1888 (eastern Uganda, western Kenya)
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