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Phytala elais catori Bethune-Baker
Phytala elais catori Bethune-Baker, 1903: 328. Aurivillius, 1920 [1908-1925]: 349.
Draeseke, 1936: 44. =Phytala elais catori ab. elaidina Strand, 1920b: 133; 1926: 402.
This subspecies was described from Sierra Leone and is here recorded from Liberia for the first time. The nominate subspecies occurs from Ghana (according to Aurivillius, 1920) eastward to the northern Congo, south to Gabon.
Liberia: Harbel, 1 $ , III, 1 S , XI (Fox).
- bibliographic citation
- Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA
