Neptis morosa

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

Neptis morosa, the savanna sailer or morose sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania. [2] The habitat consists of moist areas and forest margins.

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. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini