Neptidopsis ophione

Neptidopsis ophione
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptidopsis
Species: N. ophione
Binomial name
Neptidopsis ophione
(Cramer, 1777)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio ophione Cramer, 1777
  • Papilio valentina Cramer, 1780
  • Eurytela morgani Doubleday, 1848
  • Eurytela velleda Mabille, 1890
  • Neptidopsis ophione var. nucleata Grünberg, 1911

Neptidopsis ophione, the scalloped false sailer or scalloped sailer (also spelled "sailor"), is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2] 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.

The larvae feed on Tragia species T. benthami, T. brevipes, T. impedita and probably also Ricinus species.

Subspecies

  • Neptidopsis ophione ophione (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, Congo)
  • Neptidopsis ophione nucleata Grünberg, 1911 (northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe)

References

  1. ↑ Neptidopsis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Biblidini


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