Euphaedra castanea is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Lualaba and Shaba).Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
Described as Euphaedra preussi form castanea form. nov.
Male: All green areas above are replaced by rufous chestnut, saturated and suffused with purple-blue, tornal area of hindwing and a submarginal row of spots blue. On forewing, there are 3 black spots in cell above.
Habitat: Kongour Forest, Manyema, Congo Free State (R. Grauer), 1 male.Rothschild, W. 1918 Some Apparently New Forms of African Nymphalidae Novitates Zoologicae 25 : 338-345
Raised to species by Berger.von A Berger, Lucien, 1981 Les Papillons du Zaire Verlag: Weissenbruch, Bruxelles, 543pp., 213 pls. 1981
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