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Nepheronia argia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Pieridae

Genus
  
Nepheronia

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Class
  
Insecta

Tribe
  
Colotini

Scientific name
  
Nepheronia argia

Rank
  
Species


Similar
  
Nepheronia, Leptosia alcesta, Appias sabina, Appias epaphia, Colotis euippe

Nepheronia argia, the large vagrant, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found throughout Africa.

The wingspan is 50–65 mm for males and 48–70 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round in warmer areas with peaks in late summer and autumn.

The larvae feed on Hippocratea longipetolata, Cassipurea ruwenzorensis, and Ritchiea species.

Subspecies

  • N. a. argia (Fabricius, 1775) (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Sudan, northern Uganda)
  • N. a. argolisia (Stoneham, 1957) (Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, north-western Zambia)
  • N. a. mhondana (Suffert, 1904) (eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, central and northern Mozambique)
  • N. a. varia (Trimen, 1864) (South Africa)
  • N. a. variegata Henning, 1994 (southern Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland)

    • References

    Nepheronia argia Wikipedia
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