Neptis clarei

Neptis clarei
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. clarei
Binomial name
Neptis clarei Neave, 1904 [1] [2]

Neptis clarei, or Clare's sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Uganda, western Kenya and possibly north-western Tanzania. ^[3] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Paullinia pinnata .

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Taxonomy

It is a member of the Neptis agatha species group — apparently only differs [from Neptis nysiades ] in having the discal spot 6 on the forewing absent or very narrowly linear and spots 4 and 5 completely joined together.Uganda. ^[4]

It is also (in a different interpretation) the nominotypical member of the clarei sub-group of the nysiades group. The members of the clarei sub-group are

• Neptis camarensis
• Neptis nigra
• Neptis stellata
• Neptis viridis
• Neptis clarei

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References

1. Neave, S.A., 1904. On a large collection of rhopalocera from the shores of the Victoria Nyanza. Novitates Zoologicae 11: 323–363, pl. 1.
2. "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
4. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
5. Richardson, I.D. 2019. Revision of the genus Neptis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region: Currently described taxa. Metamorphosis 30: 69‒221