Vanessula milca

Vanessula milca
Vanessula milca , female
Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta) Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera) Superfamily : Papilionoidea Family : Noble butterfly (Nymphalidae) Genre : Vanessula Type : Vanessula milca
Scientific name
Vanessula milca
( Hewitson , 1873)

Wing underside

Vanessula milca is occurring in Africa Butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae).

features

butterfly

The wingspan of the moth is about 40 millimeters. Both sexes are drawn very similarly. Only the females show a small yellowish spot near the apex . The pairs of wings are colored black-brown in the basal region and have a tip that extends to the cell . The submarginal region is also black-brown in color. The discal and post-disc regions are bright yellow to yellow-orange in color. The drawing of the forewings shows through to the underside in a slightly weakened color.

Pre-imaginal stages

The first stands have not yet been described.

Distribution, subspecies and habitat

The species occurs with the following subspecies in Central and West Africa:

• Vanessula milca milca in Guinea , Sierra Leone , Liberia , Ghana , Angola and Zaire
• Vanessula milca angustifascia in Ivory Coast and the Nimbabergen
• Vanessula milca buechneri in Nigeria , Cameroon and Gabon
• Vanessula milca latifasciata in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Uganda , western Kenya and Tanzania, and Zambia

Vanessula milca primarily inhabited dense forests and river banks.

Way of life

The moths fly in several generations a year, mainly in the months April to June, September and October and November to February. Together with Charaxes species, they can be attracted by bait traps , but unlike many other species of butterfly , not by overripe fruit, but preferably by decaying carcasses of fish or shellfish , on which they suck in order to absorb minerals. Information on the food plants of the caterpillars is currently not available.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wingspan
2. ↑ dissemination
3. ↑ Markku Savela: Vanessula Dewitz, 1887 - deposits. In: Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Accessed April 28, 2019 . 
4. ↑ flight times
5. ↑ Andrei Sourakov & Thomas C. Emmel: Bait trapping for Butterflies in Kenya ( https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bb46/05480837904248680046fb1e2711306cb59a.pdf ), Research Gate, Tropical Lepidoptera Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995. pp. 1/2

Web links

Commons : Vanessula milca  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• abdb-africa.org - African Butterfly Database
• colnect.com/en/stamps - Lady's maid (Vanessula milca) on a postage stamp in Uganda