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Nepheronia pharis (Boisduval 1836)

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Nepheronia pharis (Boisduval)
Pieris pharis Boisduval, 1836: 443 (Coast of Guinea).
Both sexes are white with the tip of the forewing black and have a yellow tinge on the underside and, on the hindwing, some brown markings. Aurivillius (1910 [1908-1925]) says the species is rare and is distributed from Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda. The records below are the first for Liberia. All were taken within deep forest.
Liberia: Ganta, 1 $ , V; Wanau Forest, 1 9 , 1, 2 $, III, 2 3,1 9 , VIII (Fox).
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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
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Nepheronia pharis

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Nepheronia pharis, the round-winged vagrant, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of undisturbed primary lowland forests and riverine forests.

Subspecies

  • Nepheronia pharis pharis (Sierra Leone, coast and north-eastern Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)
  • Nepheronia pharis silvanus (Stoneham, 1957) (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

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  1. ^ Nepheronia, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Colotis group". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
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Nepheronia pharis, the round-winged vagrant, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of undisturbed primary lowland forests and riverine forests.

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