Neptis gratiosa

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Neptis gratiosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species:
N. gratiosa
Binomial name
Neptis gratiosa
Overlaet, 1955 [1]

Neptis gratiosa is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. [2] It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sankuru and Shaba), northern Zambia, Mozambique, north-western Tanzania and Kenya. [3] The habitat consists of grassy woodland.

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. KÜHNE, Lars (30 September 2000). "Die Tagfalter der Afrika-Expeditionen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin (Lepidotera[sic]: Papilionoidea & Hesperioidea)" (PDF). Entomofauna. 21 (17): 213–228.
  3. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini