Neptis livingstonei

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

Neptis livingstonei is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania. ^[2]

N. livingstonei Suff. is similar to Neptis agatha [ agatha species group ], but the median band of the hindwing is much narrower and only reaches vein 6, its spot in cellule 5 is small and not so long as the one in 2; the first marginal line is thicker and placed further from the distal margin and the marginal lines are not interrupted in cellule 3 of the forewing; the discal band of the forewing is narrowed towards the costal margin, as in jordani . German East Africa: Lukuledi. ^[3]

Known only from the Holotype.

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 .