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Scalloped castor
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Ariadne
Species:	A. pagenstecheri
Binomial name
Ariadne pagenstecheri (Suffert, 1904)
Synonyms
Ergolis pagenstecheri Suffert, 1904 Ergolis murina Bartel, 1905 Ergolis pagenstecheri f. aurantiaca Heron, 1909

Ariadne pagenstecheri, the Pagenstecher's castor or scalloped castor, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, southern Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and the eastern and central parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of the margins of sub-montane and montane forests.

The larvae feed on Tragia brevipes.

References

1. "Ariadne Horsfield, [1829]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Biblidini". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-06-18.

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