Aphysoneura pigmentaria

Painted ringlet
	Upper and underside in; Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Aphysoneura
Species:	A. pigmentaria
Binomial name
	Aphysoneura pigmentaria; Karsch, 1894
Synonyms
	Aphysoneura pigmentaria var. latilimba Le Cerf, 1919; Aphysoneura obnubila Riley, 1923; Rhaphiceropsis pringlei Sharpe, 1894; Aphysoneura pigmentaria var. kenyae Le Cerf, 1919;

Aphysoneura pigmentaria, the painted ringlet, bamboo painted ringlet or bamboo ringlet, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.^[2] The habitat consists of the bamboo zone of montane forests.

Adults are on wing year round.

The larvae feed on Sinarundinaria alpina, Oxytenanthera abyssinica and Festuca africana.

Subspecies[edit]

Aphysoneura pigmentaria pigmentaria (north-eastern Tanzania)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria dewittei Bouyer, 2001 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria kanga Kielland, 1989 (Tanzania)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria kiellandi Congdon & Collins, 1998 (southern Kenya, northern Tanzania)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria latilimba Le Cerf, 1919 (Zambia, Malawi: south to Mount Mlanje)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria mbulu Kielland, 1989 (Tanzania: Mbulu highlands)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria obnubila Riley, 1923 (southern Tanzania, northern Malawi)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria pringlei (Sharpe, 1894) (eastern Uganda, Kenya: Kikuyu to Victoria Nyanza)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria semilatilimba Kielland, 1989 (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania: montane areas of Kigoma, Mpanda and Ufipa)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria seminigra Kielland, 1985 (eastern Tanzania)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria songeana Kielland, 1989 (Tanzania: Kitesa Forest in the Matengo Hills)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria uzungwa Kielland, 1989 (east-central Tanzania)
Aphysoneura pigmentaria vumba Kielland, 1989 (Zimbabwe)

References[edit]

^ "Aphysoneura Karsch, 1894" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

External links[edit]

NSG database Aphysoneura pigmentaria Karsch 1894 image

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[funet-1] "Aphysoneura Karsch, 1894" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-2] "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

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