Sevenia dubiosa

Sevenia dubiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Sevenia
Species:	S. dubiosa
Binomial name
Sevenia dubiosa (Strand, 1911) [1]
Synonyms
Asterope dubiosaStrand, 1911 Sallya dubiosa Sallya dubiosa morantii(Strand, 1911)

Sevenia dubiosa is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western Tanzania, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia. ^[2]

Description in Seitz

C. dubiosa Strand is unknown to me and is described as follows: “Above about as Sevenia boisduvali Wallengr., dark brown with slight olivaceous gloss, occasionally perhaps almost pure black; fringes with very slight pale greyish gloss, on the forewing with traces of whitish spots; this wing is a little darker in the cell and the costal area than posteriorly; beneath it is ochre-yellow with grey-brownish margin and a large black spot between the cell and the apex, as well as a smaller spot in the cell itself at the discocellular; the distal and larger of these spots is 4mm. in length, fully as broad, and connected posteriorly with the discocellular spot; towards the costal margin in particular fine blackish subterminal spots or streaks are present. The apex of the fore¬ wing beneath and on the underside of the hindwing the basal half and the eye-spots violet, the latter narrowly bordered with greyish and with darker pupils; the posterior half grey-brownish, slightly olivaceous and with a violet-tinged marginal band about 2mm. in breadth; the eye-spot in cellule 4 is only half as large as the others and bears no black pupil, the one in cellule 7 is also somewhat smaller than the rest, but otherwise like them; in the basal area are placed in a transverse row 3 black lines, basally convex, lighter-markedproximally. The species is no doubt nearly allied to morantii Trim, and possibly only a variety of it”. German East Africa ^[3]

The habitat consists of forests and woodland.

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References

1. Sevenia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Epicaliini". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
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 .