Species name	Phalanta phalantha (Drury, [1773]) ヒョウモンモドキ  African leopard; common leopard; common leopard fritillary
Taxonomy	Papilio phalantha Drury, [1773].  Illustrations of Natural History 2: index et 41 (90 + 2 pp.).  London. Type locality: China.
Subspecies	Phalanta phalantha aethiopica (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) Phalanta phalantha granti (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
Geographical Range	The nominate subspecies is extralimital.  Subspecies aethiopica is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin (Fermon et al., 2001), Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa. Swaziland, Lesotho, Madagascar, Seychelles, Aldabra, Comoro Islands, Mauritius, Reunion.  Subspecies granti occurs in Yemen (island of Socotra).
Distribution Map
Biology	Host plant: Ixora species (Rubiaceae) [Horsfield & Moore, 1857: 152; Java; (ssp. phalantha)].(Probably) Salix gariepensis (Salicaceae) [Bowker, in Trimen, 1870: 352 (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.); Lesotho (as Basutoland); ssp. aethiopica)]. Flacourtia species (Flacourtiaceae) [Moore, 1881; Ceylon; (ssp. phalantha ?); Davis & Barnes, 1991 (Mauritius)]. Salix species (Salicaceae) [Moore, 1881; Ceylon; (ssp. phalantha ?)]. Populus alba L.  (Salicaceae) (exotic) [Platt, 1921: 100; (ssp. aethiopica)]. Dovyalis rotundifolia (Thunb.) Thunb. and Harv. (Flacourtiaceae) [Platt, 1921: 100; (ssp. aethiopica)]. Dovyalis macrocalyx (Oliv.) Warb. (Flacourtiaceae) [Platt, 1921: 100; (ssp. aethiopica)]. Trimeria grandifolia (Hochst.) Warb. (Flacourtiaceae) [Platt, 1921: 100; (ssp. aethiopica)]. Gymnosporia species (Celastraceae) [Van Someren, 1974: 321]. Oncoba spinosa (Flacourtiaceae) [Vuattoux & Blandin, 1979 (Ivory Coast)]. Maytenus ovatus (Celastraceae) [Kielland, 1990: 142; (ssp. aethiopicus)]. Aberia species (Flacourtiaceae) [Kielland, 1990: 142; as Alberia species]. Flacourtia indica (Burm. f.) Merr. (Flacourtiaceae) [Pringle et al., 1994: 124; (ssp. aethiopica)]. Scolopia zeyheri (Flacourtiaceae) [Nichols, 1995]. Dovyalis zeyheri (Sond.) Warb. (Flacourtiaceae) [Williams, 1996: 131; Klipfontein, Pretoria district, Gauteng, and Hartebeespoort Dam, North-west Province; (ssp. aethiopica)]. Petalostigma species (Euphorbiaceae) [Larsen, 2005a]. Xylosma species (Flacourtiaceae) [Larsen, 2005a]. Canthium species (Rubiaceae) [Larsen, 2005a]. Smilax species (Smilacaceae) [Larsen, 2005a]. Viola species (Violaceae) [Larsen, 2005a].
Nigeria
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