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Neocoenyra duplex Butler 1886

  • 1. Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania; & Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;
  • 2. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; & Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK; & School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

Description

Neocoenyra duplex Butler, 1886

Larsen 1996: pl. 30, fig. 444 i. d Abrera 1997: 245 (2 figs). SI: Figure 10a d.

Forewing length: male 15.0 18.0 mm [mean (n = 13) 16.66 mm, SD = 0.559]; female 17.0 20.5 mm [mean (n = 8) 18.61 mm, SD = 1.086].

Records

According to Kielland (1990, p. 88), this butterfly occurs in arid thorn-bush, at 1400 1900 m, in northern Tanzania (with an isolated record from Mbeya). Included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna on the basis of ten male and three female specimens in OUMNH collected by Rogers in 1905 and 1906 at Taveta, c. 2500 ft (see also Butler 1901, p. 23), and, in BMNH, three males from West Kilimanjaro collected by Cooper at 4500 5000 ft., two males from Taveta (ex Rogers), and a further example from Taveta (sex uncertain). Not encountered by Liseki (2009) at 2000 m or above. More widely, according to Ackery et al. (1995, p. 315), this monotypic species ranges from Somalia southwards to Uganda and the Rwanda /DRC border.

Notes

Published as part of Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, pp. 865-904 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 877, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1091106, http://zenodo.org/record/3990100

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , OUMNH
Scientific name authorship
Butler
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Neocoenyra
Species
duplex
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Neocoenyra duplex Butler, 1886 sec. Liseki & Vane-Wright, 2015

References

  • Larsen TB. 1996. The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. 2 nd ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press.
  • d ' Abrera B. 1997. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region (2 nd edn). Part I. Papilionidae, Pieridae, Acraeidae, Danaidae & Satyridae. Melbourne: Hill House.
  • Kielland J. 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Melbourne: Hill House.
  • Butler AG. 1901. An account of a collection of butterflies made by the Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers between Mombasa and the Forests of Taveta. Ann Mag Nat Hist. (7) 7: 22 - 35.
  • Liseki SD 2009. Butterfly diversity and its relevance to conservation in north-eastern Tanzania [PhD thesis]. Canterbury (UK): University of Kent.
  • Ackery PR, Smith CR, Vane-Wright RI, editors. 1995. Carcasson ' s African Butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. East Melbourne: CSIRO.