Neptis angusta

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Neptis angusta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species:
N. angusta
Binomial name
Neptis angusta
Condamin, 1966 [1]
Synonyms
  • Neptis constantiae angustaCondamin, 1966

Neptis angusta, or Condamin's sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ghana (the Volta Region), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sankuru, Tshuapa, Tshopo and Ituri), western Uganda and north-western Tanzania. [2] It was considered a subspecies of Neptis constantiae .

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Neptis agatha species group

References

  1. "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini