Neptis ducarmei, 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 : 149

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.4314/met.v33i1.15
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7CF9077A-E55B-4290-8EFA-A47448254139
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED3970-FFF6-D65B-F993-FAC8D10DF8AF
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Neptis ducarmei
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Neptis ducarmei sp. nov. ( Fig. 26 View Figure 26 )

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Neptis ducarmei and N. ginettae were amongst the first species from the Nysiades group to be isolated within the ABRI collection as potential new species. They have a similar arrangement of the forewing discal band markings into three separate groups and the males have two or three veins at the base of the hindwing brightly marked yellow. Subsequent barcoding showed the specimens to fall into two distinct species.

Holotype: ♂ Kasugho , Nord-Kivu, DRC, 00°15′ S 29°15′ E, (-0.2500°, 29.2500°), 23.viii.2017, R. Ducarme. I. Richardson collection GoogleMaps

Paratypes: 4 ♂, 7 ♀: data shown in Table 4