Neptis carpenteri

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| authority = d'Abrera, 1980[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/neptis/ "Neptis Fabricius, 1807"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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Neptis carpenteri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_limenitidini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini]

It was first descied as Neptis nemetes

f. carpenteri Eltringham, 1922; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1921: 550, 551, pl. 24, f. 7

D'Abrera raised this to specific rank D'Abrera, B., 1980. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne: xx, 593 pp.

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Category:Butterflies described in 1980

carpenteri

Category:Taxa named by Bernard d'Abrera

Category:Butterflies of Africa

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