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Phalanta phalanta

Comprehensive Description

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Phalanta phalanta aetheopica (Rothschild and Jordan)
Atella phalanta aetheopica Rothschild and Jordan, 1903b: 505 (Somaliland).
This subspecies is distributed on Madagascar and throughout tropical Africa. Closely similar to P. eurytis, it may be easily distinguished by the presence of a rounded blackened spot in Cu 2 -2A of the forewing just distad of the cubital fork; this marking is absent in eurytis or is merely a darker tawny, never blackened. Technically, the record below from Cape Palmas is the first for Liberia, but it is quite probable that aetheopica has been confused with eurytis in the past.
Liberia: Cape Palmas, 2 S (Naysmith).
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bibliographic citation
Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA