Neptis nemetes

Neptis nemetes, commonly known as the Nemetes sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western, central and eastern Africa.[2] The habitat consists of lowland forests and riverine thicket.

Neptis nemetes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species:
N. nemetes
Binomial name
Neptis nemetes

The larvae feed on Asteraceae species, Alchornea cordifolia and Macaranga and Alchornea species.

Subspecies

  • Neptis nemetes nemetes (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina-Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, southern Sudan, western Kenya, Zambia)
  • Neptis nemetes margueriteae Fox, 1968 (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea: Mbini, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Zambia)
  • Neptis nemetes obtusa Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (Ethiopia)
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References

  1. "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini


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