Neptis carpenteri

Neptis carpenteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. carpenteri
Binomial name
	Neptis carpenteri; d'Abrera, 1980

Last updated August 24, 2025

Neptis carpenteri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania.^[2]

It was first descied as Neptis nemetes f. carpenteri^[3] D'Abrera raised this to specific rank ^[4]

References

↑ "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
↑ Eltringham, 1922; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1921: 550, 551, pl. 24, f. 7
↑ D'Abrera, B., 1980. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne: xx, 593 pp.

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[funet-1] "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-2] Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini

[3] Eltringham, 1922; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1921: 550, 551, pl. 24, f. 7

[4] D'Abrera, B., 1980. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne: xx, 593 pp.

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