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| Small streaked sailer | |
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| Figure 2 male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Neptis |
| Species: | N. goochii |
| Binomial name | |
| Neptis goochii Trimen, 1879 | |
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Neptis goochii, the small streaked sailer, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sub-Saharan Africa.[1] The habitat consists of forests.[2]
Wingspan is 30–35 mm in males and 34–38 mm in females.N. goochi Trim. (48 f) is probably merely the East African race of Neptis melicerta and only differs in having discal spots 5 and 6 on the forewing broader and more or less completely joined together, the median band of the hindwing broader, about 5 mm. in breadth, and especially in the second marginal line on the underside of the hindwing being not or but little thickened. Natal to Kilimandjaro [3]Images BOLD
Adults are on the wing year round with a peak from December to May.[1]
The larvae feed on Acalypha species,[1] as well as Alchornea cordifolia and Dalbergia species.
Taxonomy
[edit]It is a member of the Neptis melicerta Species group sensu Seitz
It is a member of the melicerta Species group sensu Richardson The members of the melicerta group are
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
- ↑ 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.
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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