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Neptis Fabricius 1807

Neptidomima Holland 1920

Andrew V. Z. Brower
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Note: this taxon list is still under construction. It does not yet contain all known Neptis subgroups.

Containing group: Neptini

Introduction

A large and widespread genus of the Old World tropics and subtropics. The first alphabetical list represents the Afrotropical species, and the second is the Indomalayan - Australasian species. Parsons (1999) states that Eliot (1969) believed that the African and Asian Neptis are not closely related, but Eliot (in Corbet et al. 1992) says of Neptis, "distributed from Europe throughout most of Africa and Asia ...".

References

Ackery PR, Smith CR, and Vane-Wright RI eds. 1995. Carcasson's African butterflies. Canberra: CSIRO.

Corbet AS, Pendlebury HM, and Eliot JN. 1992. The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.

Eliot JN. 1969. An analysis of the Eurasian and Australian Neptini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bull. Br. mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.) Suppl. 15: 1-155, 101 figs., 3 plates.

Parsons M. 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. Academic Press, San Diego.

Information on the Internet

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Scientific Name Neptis sappho formosana
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Scientific Name Neptis hylas
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Scientific Name Neptis nata
Location Taiwan
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Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2006. Neptis Fabricius 1807. Neptidomima Holland 1920. Version 09 December 2006 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Neptis/70392/2006.12.09 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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