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Nepheronia thalassina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Pieridae

Genus
  
Nepheronia

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Class
  
Insecta

Tribe
  
Colotini

Scientific name
  
Nepheronia thalassina

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Nepheronia, Nepheronia argia, Leptosia alcesta, Appias sabina, Colotis vesta

Nepheronia thalassina, the Cambridge vagrant, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in southern Africa.

The wingspan is 50–55 mm for males and 55–60 mm for females. Adults are on the wing year-round, peaking from February to May.

The larvae feed on Hippocrates obtusifolia, Hippocrates africana, and Jasminium spp.

Subspecies

  • N. t. thalassina (Boisduval, 1836) (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)
  • N. t. sinalata (Suffert, 1904) (Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, eastern and northern Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, northern Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa)
  • N. t. verulanus (Ward, 1871) (Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, northern Angola, northern Zambia)

    • References

    Nepheronia thalassina Wikipedia
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