Salamis anteva

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Salamis anteva
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Salamis
Species:
S. anteva
Binomial name
Salamis anteva
(Ward, 1870) [1]
Synonyms
  • Junonia antevaWard, 1870
  • Salamis anteva var. lambertoniOberthür, 1923

Salamis anteva is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. [2] The habitat consists of forests.

It is a butterfly with a black body covered with orange-brown hair; claviform antennae; above the orange-colored, anterior wings edged with black integrating a bluish-whitish spot; posterior also orange and margins along the veins of the wing brown - black. The underside is gray - black and reminds of a dead leaf, which serves as camouflage; a whitish line runs through the wings of the posterior edge of the hindwing of the anterior edge of the forewing: between this "line" and the body, the wings are darker than between the "line" and the edges of the wings. Its wings are bent.

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References

  1. Salamis anteva at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini