Neptis clarei Neave, 1904
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Neptis clarei Neave, 1904 |
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Neptis clarei Neave, 1904 View in CoL
A few specimens of N. clarei were captured in Mpanga Forest , and their identity was confirmed via examination of male genitalia in comparison with Richardson’s (2019)
genitalia illustration of N. clarei from Kakamega Forest, Kenya.
Neptis sp. near clarei
A male specimen of a Neptis was captured in October 2016, which falls nearest to N. clarei , but its valvae differ significantly from those of N. clarei collected in Mpanga and that illustrated by Richardson (2019) from Kakamega Forest, Kenya. Congdon & Collins (1998) mention that specimens near N. clarei collected in Minziro Forest might belong to a different species. These could well be conspecific with the one found in Mpanga but their real identity could be revealed only with further comparative studies within the group, as their genitalia do not seem to match any of the species illustrated in the revision ( Richardson, 2019).
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