Neptis nina, the tiny sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya and north-eastern Zambia.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe LimenitidiniImages BOLD The habitat consists of forests. Taxonomy It is a member of the Neptis agatha species group and of the melicerta Species group The members of the melicerta group are Neptis melicerta Neptis agouale Neptis carcassoni Neptis goochii Neptis nicomedes Neptis quintilla Neptis nicobule Neptis nina Richardson, I.D. 2019. Revision of the genus Neptis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region: Currently described taxa. Metamorphosis 30: 69‒221
nina Stgr. seems to be the eastern race [ of Neptis puella] and only differs in having the transverse band of the forewing narrowed towards the costal margin and in the somewhat narrower median band of the hindwing.[then] German East Africa: Usagara.Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.
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