Neptis agouale

Neptis agouale
Kibale National Park, Uganda
Scientific classification
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.

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

Subspecies

• Neptis agouale agouale (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, Zambia)
• Neptis agouale parallelaCollins & Larsen, 1996 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, eastern Uganda, Ethiopia, western Kenya, Rwanda, north-western Tanzania)

Taxonomy

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

• Neptis melicerta
• Neptis agouale
• Neptis carcassoni
• Neptis goochii
• Neptis nicomedes
• Neptis quintilla
• Neptis nicobule
• Neptis nina

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References

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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