Neptis puella

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Neptis puella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species:
N. puella
Binomial name
Neptis puella
Synonyms
  • Neptis lucayensisSchultze, 1916

Neptis puella, the little sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. [2] The habitat consists of Cryptosepalum woodland.

N. puella Auriv. has an expanse of 34—37 mm. and only differs from nysiades in discal spots 2—8 on the forewing forming a completely continuous transverse band with the proximal boundary nearly straight and the distal arcuate; the first marginal line of the forewing is deeply bent proximad in 1 b, but not sharply angled; the median band of the hindwing moderately broad, narrowed towards the inner margin. Cameroons and Congo. — nina Stgr. seems to be the eastern race. [3] Images BOLD

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.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .