Neptis woodwardi, or Woodward's sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Uganda and Kenya.
Description N. woodwardi E. Sharpe differs from incongrua in the absence of the white dots beyond the apex of the cell on the forewing, while the discal spots of the forewing are smaller and may even be entirely absent in cellules 1 a and 1 b and the median band of the hindwing is placed nearer to the base, covers the base of cellule 3 and is ochre-yellowish. UgandaAurivillius, [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. Images BOLD
Subspecies Neptis woodwardi woodwardi (Kenya: west of the Rift Valley, eastern Uganda) Neptis woodwardi translima Collins & Larsen, 1991 (Kenya: central highlands) Now species
Taxonomy It is the nominotypical mmmber of the Species group woodwardi
Neptis woodwardi Neptis translima Neptis ochracea Neptis mildbraedi Richardson, I.D. 2019. Revision of the genus Neptis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region: Currently described taxa. Metamorphosis 30: 69‒221
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