Neptis nanciae, Aduse-Poku & Lohman & Richardson, 2022

Aduse-Poku, Kwaku, Lohman, David J. & Richardson, Ian D., 2022, Revision of the genus Neptis Fabricius, 1807 (Papilionoidea: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region, Part 4: The phylogeny of the Nysiades group with eight new species, Metamorphosis 33 (1), pp. 130-163 : 141-142

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.4314/met.v33i1.15

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14682401

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED3970-FFEE-D644-FA28-F8D3D28BFEE7

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Neptis nanciae
status

sp. nov.

Neptis nanciae sp. nov. ( Fig. 12 View Figure 12 )

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Two specimens of N. nanciae from high elevation forest in the north-eastern DRC have been barcoded. One of these, a male in the ABRI collection, is selected as the holotype and is shown in Fig. 12 View Figure 12 along with a female paratype and specimens of Neptis jamesi .

Holotype: ♂ Kithokolo , Nord- Kivu, DRC, 01°10ʹ S, 29°13ʹ E, (-1.1667°, 29.2167°), 1900–2000 m, vi.2014, ABRI-150683, ABRI collection. GoogleMaps

Paratype: ♀ Kithokolo , Nord- Kivu, DRC, 01°10ʹ S, 29°13ʹ E, (-1.1667°, 29.2167°), 1900–2000 m, v.2012, ABRI-152952, ABRI collection GoogleMaps

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Neptis

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