Neptis agouale

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Neptis agouale
Common club-dot sailor (Neptis agouale).jpg
Kibale National Park, Uganda
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species:
N. agouale
Binomial name
Neptis agouale
Pierre-Baltus, 1978 [1]
Synonyms
  • Neptis agonale

Neptis agouale, the common club-dot sailer , is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. [2] The habitat consists of forest.

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The larvae feed on Acacia (including Acacia pennata ) and Ventilago species, as well as Pterocarpus santalinoides , Baphia pubescens , Grewia carpinifolia and Sterculia tragacantha .

Subspecies

Taxonomy

It is a member of the melicerta Species group The members of the melicerta group are

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References

  1. "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
  3. Richardson, I.D. 2019. Revision of the genus Neptis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region: Currently described taxa. Metamorphosis 30: 69‒221