Misplaced Pages

Neptis penningtoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. penningtoni
Binomial name
Neptis penningtoni van Son, 1977

Neptis penningtoni, or Pennington's sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in south-eastern Kenya, western Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa (Limpopo). The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland, especially on wooded hills.

Adults are on wing in April and from July to December.

The larvae feed on Julbernardia globiflora. They prefer freshly emerged shoots of their host plant

References

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

This Limenitidinae article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Butterflies described in 1977
• Neptis
• Butterflies of Africa
• Limenitidinae stubs