Euphaedra viridicaerulea

Euphaedra viridicaerulea
As E. rana in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euphaedra
Species:	E. viridicaerulea
Binomial name
Euphaedra viridicaerulea Bartel, 1905 [1]
Synonyms
Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) viridicaerulea Euphaedra inanoidesHolland, 1920 Euphaedra ugandae f. viridisRothschild, 1918 Euphaedra uganda f. subargentinaHecq, 1977

Euphaedra viridicaerulea, the brown-patch Ceres forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda and Kenya. ^[2]

Subspecies

• E. v. viridicaerulea (south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon)
• E. v. inanoidesHolland, 1920 (Central African Republic, central and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• E. v. griseargentinaHecq, 1977 (southern Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• E. v. nitidulavan Someren, 1935 (Uganda, Kenya)

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

E. viridicaerulea Bartel (= rana Stgr. i.1.) (44 c) differs from ceres in having the black discal spots on the under surface very indistinct or absent and from the following species in the distinct, black, bluish-margined submarginal spots on the hindwing beneath. The forewing has the subapical band bluish white and the hinclmarginal spot on the upper surface very narrow, scarcely reaching the middle of cellule 1 b; the marginal band on the upperside of the hind wing is without distinct blue spots; the forewing beneath has three black spots in the cell and a black submarginal spot in cellule 1 b; the hindwing beneath is more or less yellowish. especially towards the inner margin, in the cell with 1 or 2 black dots and with a black spot at the base of vein 8; the female with an indistinctly defined whitish median band, which is entirely absent in the male. South Cameroons and Gaboon. ^[3]

Similar species

Other members of the Euphaedra ceres species group

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.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .