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Common Ringlet
Ypthima doleta
9.60004, 7.99997
Field Notes
Description:
Ypthima doleta, the Common Ringlet, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of humid areas, including farmland, forest margins and glades.
Habitat:
Feeding on wild sunflowers
Notes:
In the face of threat, those apparently plain brown wings are opened to reveal eye spots or ringlets that are as real as a glare of an angry bird. This one revolved so that the bigger ringlets looked at my direction, like big eye spots for big predators and vice versa.
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Ypthima doleta
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PublishedJuly 17, 2013
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