Neptis jamesoni

Neptis jamesoni
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. jamesoni
Binomial name
Neptis jamesoni Godman & Salvin, 1890 [1]

Neptis jamesoni, or Jameson's large sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria (the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^[2]

N. jamesoni Godm. (48 f) differs from all the other Neptis species in that the longitudinal stripe in the cell of the forewing fills up the cell to the anterior margin and is blue-grey in its distal part. A large species,expanding about 60 mm.; discal spots 5 and 6 on the forewing are very long and narrow and distally divergent, discal spot 2 is rounded and much shorter than the spot in 3, which is of the same breadth; discal band of the hindwing about 5mm. in breadth and distally deeply incised at the veins; the second marginal line is much thickened beneath. Cameroons and Congo region/ ^[3] BOLD images

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Neptis melicerta Species group sensu Seitz

References

1. "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
3. 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 .