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Neptis Fabricius 1807

Neptidomima Holland 1920

Andrew V. Z. Brower
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Containing group: Neptini

Introduction

A large and widespread genus of the Old World tropics and subtropics. The first alphabetical list represents the Afrotropical species, and the second is the Indomalayan - Australasian species (several additional African species listed by Larsen (2005) are appended to the bottom). Parsons (1999) states that Eliot (1969) believed that the African and Asian Neptis are not closely related, but Eliot (in Corbet et al. 1992) says of Neptis, "distributed from Europe throughout most of Africa and Asia ...".

Other Names for Neptis Fabricius 1807

References

Ackery PR, Smith CR, and Vane-Wright RI eds. 1995. Carcasson's African butterflies. Canberra: CSIRO.

Corbet AS, Pendlebury HM, and Eliot JN. 1992. The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.

Eliot JN. 1969. An analysis of the Eurasian and Australian Neptini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bull. Br. mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.) Suppl. 15: 1-155, 101 figs., 3 plates.

Larsen, T. B. 2005 Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books.

Parsons M. 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. Academic Press, San Diego.

Information on the Internet

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Scientific Name Neptis sappho formosana
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source PICT0080_1
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Copyright © 2006 chung-tung yeh
Scientific Name Neptis hylas
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source 琉球三線蝶 Neptis hylas
Source Collection Flickr
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Copyright © 2006 Changhua Coast Conservation Action 台灣水鳥研究
Scientific Name Neptis nata
Location Taiwan
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source IMG_7303al1
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2006 leemt2
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