Neptis exaleuca
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Neptis |
| Species: | N. exaleuca
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Neptis exaleuca is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda and Tanzania.[2]
Description
[edit | edit source]Discal spots of the forewing and discal band of the hindwing white; Wings above dark brown, beneath glossy bronze-brown; fringes with white spots on the folds. Expanse 52 mm. Cameroons and Congo[3]
Subspecies
[edit | edit source]- Neptis exaleuca exaleuca (Cameroon to western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Neptis exaleuca suffusa Rothschild, 1918 (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neptis exaleuca.
Wikispecies has information related to Neptis exaleuca.
- ^ "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
- ^ 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.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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