Euphaedra sarita

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Euphaedra sarita
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In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euphaedra
Species:
E. sarita
Binomial name
Euphaedra sarita
(Sharpe, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
  • Romaleosoma saritaSharpe, 1891
  • Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) sarita
  • Euphaedra sarita sarita f. stigmaticaHecq, 1977

Euphaedra sarita is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia. [2]

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Description

E. sarita E. Sharpe (44 c), like inanum , has no black markings on the under surface except 1-3 dots in the cells; the ground-colour of the underside is very variable, light green -yellow-green - yellow-brown, and the hindwing has no white median band but occasionally light green submarginal spots; the subapical band of the forewing is in the male above dark green and triangular, beneath quite obsolete or only indicated, in the female whitish; the blue-green hindmarginal spot on the forewing reaches at least to vein 2. Congo - ab. abyssinica Rothsch. has on the under surface the base of the costal margin of the hindwing bright ochre-yellow and a black spot on the precostal vein. Abyssinia. [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. ↑ "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
  3. ↑ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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