| Heteropsis nigrescens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Heteropsis |
| Species: | H. nigrescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Heteropsis nigrescens (Bethune-Baker, 1908) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Heteropsis nigrescens is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2]
H. nigrescens Baker is evidently nearly allied to the preceding species [ Heteropsis peitho ] and is described as follows: Male : Both wings deep velvety blackish brown, with small ocellated spots. Primaries [anterior wings] with two small subapical intense black spots minutely but distinctly pupilled with white and having red irides which touch each other; a larger similar spot near the termen between veins 2 and 3; secondaries posterior wings with a similar spot as in the primaries between veins 2 and 3, near the termen, with occasionally a trace of another similar one above it.Underside: both wings tawny ochreous, closely suffused with fine, deep, rusty, vein-like, wavy lines, terminating to a large extent in the postmedian area by a prominent deep rusty line through both wings with a broad greyish subterminal area in which the white-pupilled black spots show through, the upper two having a single ochreous iris, the lower one with a very broad ochreous iris with a dark outer edging: secondaries with a rusty median transverse line and a curved series of seven or eight ocellated spots as in the forewings. Expanse 46 mm. Hab. Makala, May and June 1906. [3]
