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.

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Neptidopsis ophione in languages:

English
Scalloped False Sailer
English
Scalloped Sailer

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