Kumothales

{{Short description|Monotypic brush-footed butterfly genus}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| familia = Nymphalidae

| subfamilia = Limenitidinae

| genus = Kumothales

| genus_authority = Overlaet, 1940

| species = K. inexpectata

| binomial = Kumothales inexpectata

| binomial_authority = Overlaet, 1940[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/kumothales/ "Kumothales Overlaet, 1940"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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Kumothales is a monotypic butterfly genus of the family Nymphalidae. Its only species, Kumothales inexpectata, is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the Kivu-Ruwenzori area), Uganda (from the south-western part of the country to Kigezi) and Rwanda.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_limenitidini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini]