Amauris vashti
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| Specimen from Uganda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Amauris |
| Species: | A. vashti
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| Binomial name | |
| Amauris vashti (Butler, 1869)
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Amauris vashti is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
Description
[edit]Amauris vashti has a wingspan reaching about 83 millimetres (3.3 in). The uppersides of the forewings are black, with two large basal whitish spots and a few small spots on the edge. The uppersides of the hindwings are dark brown in males, pale brown in females.
Distribution
[edit]This species can be found in tropical Africa, mainly in Nigeria, Cameroun, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
References
[edit]- "Amauris Hübner, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Biolib
External links
[edit]- World Field Guide[permanent dead link]
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 23 d
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