Euphaedra graueri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
Description The original description reads Euphaedra graueri sp. nov.
Male and female ground-colour above deep velvety blue-black. Forewing basal two-fifths obliquely steel-blue, a postmedian broad oblique orange band consisting of two large quadrate patches joined corner to corner, fringe at apex whitish, and elsewhere black with white intranervular dots.
Hindwing basal three-fourths steel-blue.
Below forewing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black scales; 3 black spots in cell, a postdiscal, somewhat dilute black transverse band, oblique transverse orange band paler. Hindwing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black scales; 2 black spots in cell and a black streak on discocellulars, postdiscal band as on forewing, a dark rose-crimson transverse band from costa to beyond vein 3 beyond cell, which curves round and reaches base of wing, the horizontal portion being each side of vein 1, a black line on inner side of the transverse portion of the crimson band.
Length of forewing: male 39 mm., female 48 mm. Expanse: male 83 mm., female 101 mm.
Habitat. Forest 90 km. west of Lake Albert Edward, February 1908, 1,600 m. (R. Grauer), 1 male, 2 females.Rothschild, W. 1918 Some Apparently New Forms of African Nymphalidae Novitates Zoologicae 25 : 338-345
Etymology The specific epithet honours Rudolf Grauer.
References
External links Pteron World