Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Neptis | |
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Similar Neptis nemetes, Neptis melicerta, Neptis serena | ||
Neptis morosa, the savanna sailer or morose sailer, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of moist areas and forest margins.
Adult males imbibe dew from the stems of tall grasses.
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