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Species of butterfly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neptis nicobule, the scarce clubbed sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele and Lualaba), Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of wet forests.
Neptis nicobule | |
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Male, figure 7 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Neptis |
Species: | N. nicobule |
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Neptis nicobule | |
The larvae feed on Cnestis ferruginea, Tetrapleura and Swartzia species.