Euptera dorothea

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| authority = Bethune-Baker, 1904[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/euptera/ "Euptera Staudinger, 1891"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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Euptera dorothea, the western euptera, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_adoliadini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini] The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

  • Euptera dorothea dorothea (Guinea, Sierra Leone)
  • Euptera dorothea warrengashi Libert, 2002 (Guinea, Ivory Coast, western Ghana)
    (named in honour of Haydon Warren-Gash)

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Category:Butterflies described in 1904

Category:Euptera

Category:Butterflies of Africa

Category:Taxa named by George Thomas Bethune-Baker

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