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Neptidopsis ophione (Scalloped False Sailor)

Synonyms: Eurytela morgani; Eurytela ophione; Eurytela valentina; Neptidopsis nucleata

Wikipedia Abstract

Neptidopsis ophione, the Scalloped False Sailer or Scalloped Sailer, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of forest edges, secondary forest and dense woodland. Adults are attracted to fermented bananas and sap exuding from the branches of trees and shrubs. They are on wing from January to September.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Tragia benthamii[1]
Tragia brevipes[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0