Issoria baumanni
Issoria baumanni, Baumann's mountain fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. The habitat consists of grassland, marshy areas and forest margins at high altitudes. The larvae feed on Viola abyssinica.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Issoria |
| Species: | I. baumanni
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Issoria baumanni, Baumann's mountain fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of grassland, marshy areas and forest margins at high altitudes.
The larvae feed on Viola abyssinica.
Subspecies
[edit]- Issoria baumanni baumanni (Burundi)
- Issoria baumanni excelsior (Butler, 1896) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: east to Kivu)
- Issoria baumanni katangae (Neave, 1910) (south-western Tanzania, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Tanganika)
- Issoria baumanni orientalis Kielland, 1990 (southern highlands of Tanzania)
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Baumann's mountain fritillary, Issoria baumanni excelsior, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
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References
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- ^ "Issoria Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Argynnini". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
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