Neptidopsis ophione: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Neptidopsis
- Species
- Neptidopsis ophione
- Scientific Name
- Neptidopsis ophione
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Neptidopsis ophione
Neptidopsis ophione, the scalloped false sailer or scalloped sailer (also spelled "sailor"), is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of forest edges, secondary forest and dense woodland. They are on wing from January to September.
The larvae feed on Tragia species T. benthami, T. brevipes, T. impedita and probably also Ricinus species.
...Neptidopsis ophione in languages:
- English
- Scalloped False Sailer
- English
- Scalloped Sailer