Neptis woodwardi

Neptis woodwardi
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. woodwardi
Binomial name
	Neptis woodwardi; Sharpe, 1899

Neptis woodwardi, or Woodward's sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Uganda and Kenya.^[2]

Description

N. woodwardi E. Sharpe differs from incongrua in the absence of the white dots beyond the apex of the cell on the forewing, while the discal spots of the forewing are smaller and may even be entirely absent in cellules 1 a and 1 b and the median band of the hindwing is placed nearer to the base, covers the base of cellule 3 and is ochre-yellowish. Uganda^[3] Images BOLD

Subspecies

Neptis woodwardi woodwardi (Kenya: west of the Rift Valley, eastern Uganda)
Neptis woodwardi translima Collins & Larsen, 1991 (Kenya: central highlands) Now species

Taxonomy

It is the nominotypical mmmber of the Species group woodwardi

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References

^ "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
^ 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.
^ Richardson, I.D. 2019. Revision of the genus Neptis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region: Currently described taxa. Metamorphosis 30: 69‒221

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[funet-1] "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-2] "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2012-06-18.

[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.

[4] Richardson, I.D. 2019. Revision of the genus Neptis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region: Currently described taxa. Metamorphosis 30: 69‒221

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