Neptis alta

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| authority = Overlaet, 1955[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/neptis/index.html Neptis] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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Neptis alta, the old sailer or high sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and northern Botswana.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_limenitidini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini] The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland.

Adult males mud-puddle in the dry season. Adults are on wing from August to October and again from April to May.

  • [https://bench.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=765974 Images at BOLD]

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Neptis agatha species group and also of

the rogersi sub-group of the nysiades group

The members of the rogersi subgroup are

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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Category:Butterflies of Africa

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