Euphaedra olivacea

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Euphaedra olivacea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euphaedra
Species:
E. olivacea
Binomial name
Euphaedra olivacea
Grünberg, 1908 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Euphaedra preussi var. olivaceaGrünberg, 1908
  • Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) olivacea
  • Euphaedra preussi sordidaTalbot, 1929

Euphaedra olivacea is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in central and western Uganda. [3]

It is a member of the Euphaedra preussi species group q.v. ab. olivacea Grunb. Seitz - has the upper surface uniformly dark except for the white subapical band, without a trace of light or dark submarginal spots on the hindwing and the under surface quite as uniform brownish green with the black cell-spots much reduced. Uganda.It was described as an aberration of preussi later raised to a species by Carcasson. [4]

References

  1. "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Grünberg, K., 1908. Neue Lepidopteren aus Uganda. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1908: 50–62.
  3. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
  4. Ackery P. R., Smith C. R., and Vane-Wright R. I., eds. 1995. Carcasson's African butterflies - An Annotated Catalogue of the Papilionidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. Canberra: CSIRO. A collated edited and amplified version of Carcasson's manuscripts