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Euptera dorothea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Euptera

Similar
  
Pseudoneptis, Euriphene, Euryphura, Bebearia, Euphaedra

Euptera dorothea, the western euptera, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

  • Euptera dorothea dorothea (Guinea, Sierra Leone)
  • Euptera dorothea warrengashi Libert, 2002 (Guinea, Ivory Coast, western Ghana)
    (named in honour of Haydon Warren-Gash)
  • References

    Euptera dorothea Wikipedia