| Euphaedra graueri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euphaedra |
| Species: | E. graueri |
| Binomial name | |
| Euphaedra graueri Rothschild, 1918 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Euphaedra graueri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2]
The original description reads Euphaedra graueri sp. nov.
Male and female Ground-colour above deep velvety blue-black.Forewing basal two-fifths obliquely steel-blue, a postmedian broad oblique orange band consisting of two large quadrate patches joined corner to corner, fringe at apex whitish, and elsewhere black with white intranervular dots.
Hindwing basal three-fourths steel-blue.
Below forewing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black scales ; 3 black spots in cell, a postdiscal, somewhat dilute black transverse band, oblique transverse orange band paler. Hindwing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black scales ; 2 black spots in cell and a black streak on discocellulars, postdiscal band as on forewing, a dark rose-crimson transverse band from costa to beyond vein 3 beyond cell, which curves round and reaches base of wing, the horizontal portion bemg each side of vein 1, a black line on innerside of the transverse portion of the crimson band.
Length of forewing : male 39 mm., female 48 mm. Expanse: male 83 mm., female 101 mm.
Habitat. Forest 90 km. west of Lake Albert Edward, February 1908, 1,600 m. (R. Grauer), 1 male , 2 females. [3]
The specific epithet honours Rudolf Grauer.
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