Euphaedra sarita

Euphaedra sarita
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euphaedra
Species:	E. sarita
Binomial name
Euphaedra sarita (Sharpe, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
Romaleosoma sarita Sharpe, 1891 Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) sarita Euphaedra sarita sarita f. stigmatica Hecq, 1977

Euphaedra sarita is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia.[2]

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

E. sarita E. Sharpe (44 c), like inanum, has no black markings on the under surface except 1-3 dots in the cells; the ground-colour of the underside is very variable, light green -yellow-green - yellow-brown, and the hindwing has no white median band but occasionally light green submarginal spots; the subapical band of the forewing is in the male above dark green and triangular, beneath quite obsolete or only indicated, in the female whitish; the blue-green hindmarginal spot on the forewing reaches at least to vein 2. Congo - ab. abyssinica Rothsch. has on the under surface the base of the costal margin of the hindwing bright ochre-yellow and a black spot on the precostal vein. Abyssinia. [3]

Subspecies

• Euphaedra sarita sarita (Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, central and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda: Semuliki National Park)
• Euphaedra sarita abyssinica Rothschild, 1902 (south-western Ethiopia)
• Euphaedra sarita lulua Hecq, 1977 (southern Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Similar species

Other members of the Euphaedra ceres species group

References

1. "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
3. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, 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.