Neptis nemetes, commonly known as the Nemetes sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western, central and eastern Africa.[2] The habitat consists of lowland forests and riverine thicket.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Neptis |
| Species: | N. nemetes
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The larvae feed on Asteraceae species, Alchornea cordifolia and Macaranga and Alchornea species.
Subspecies
edit- Neptis nemetes nemetes (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina-Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, southern Sudan, western Kenya, Zambia)
- Neptis nemetes margueriteae Fox, 1968 (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea: Mbini, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Zambia)
- Neptis nemetes obtusa Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (Ethiopia)
References
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- ^ "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
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