Hypolimnas salmacis, the blue diadem, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and PrÃÂncipe, the DRC, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron, U. trinervis and Fleurya species.
Subspecies
- Hypolimnas salmacis salmacis (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola: Cabinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)
- Hypolimnas salmacis insularis <small>Schultze, 1920</small> (Bioko)
- Hypolimnas salmacis magnifica <small>Rothschild, 1918</small> (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
- Hypolimnas salmacis platydema <small>Rothschild & Jordan, 1903</small> (southern Ethiopia, southern Sudan)
- Hypolimnas salmacis thomensis <small>Aurivillius, 1910</small> (São Tomé)
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