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Neptis agouale

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Species of butterfly

Neptis agouale

Kibale National Park, Uganda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. agouale
Binomial name
*Neptis agouale* Pierre-Baltus, 1978
Synonyms
Neptis agonale

Neptis agouale, the common club-dot sailer , is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forest.

The larvae feed on Acacia (including Acacia pennata) and Ventilago species, as well as Pterocarpus santalinoides, Baphia pubescens, Grewia carpinifolia and Sterculia tragacantha.

Subspecies

Neptis agouale agouale (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, Zambia)
Neptis agouale parallela Collins & Larsen, 1996 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, eastern Uganda, Ethiopia, western Kenya, Rwanda, north-western Tanzania)

References

"Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini

Taxon identifiers
Neptis agouale	Wikidata: Q6995395 Wikispecies: Neptis agouale BioLib: 641407 BOLD: 765976 CoL: 473PY EoL: 166981 GBIF: 5131106 iNaturalist: 876871 IRMNG: 10770747 LepIndex: 160909 NCBI: 2093596 Open Tree of Life: 3122358

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