Pseudargynnis

Pseudargynnis is a monotypic butterfly genus. The single species Pseudargynnis hegemone, the false fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of open grassy and marshy habitats in tropical savanna and open forests.

Pseudargynnis
Pseudargynnis hegemone and P. h. nyassae in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Pseudargynnis Karsch, 1892
Species:	P. hegemone
Binomial name
Pseudargynnis hegemone (Godart, 1819)[1]
Synonyms
Argynnis hegemone Godart, 1819 Jaera duodecipunctata Snellen, 1872 Aterica clorana Druce, 1874 Pseudargynnis hegemone nyassae Bartel, 1905 Pseudargynnis hegemone ab. obscurata Grünberg, 1910 Pseudargynnis hegemone f. duplicata Riley, 1932

The larvae feed on Dissotis species (including D. denticulata) and possibly Antherotoma naudinii.

References

1. "Pseudargynnis Karsch, 1892" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini