''Euphaedra losinga'', the dark brown forester, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a re ...

. It is found in

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of G ...

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, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the

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and the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
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Description

Medon Group. The species of this group only agree in having the submarginal spots of the hindwing entirely absent on both surfaces, or at least above. ''E. losinga'' Hew. entirely agrees with '' harpalyce'' , but differs beneath in the hindwing having in the middle a narrow, sharply defined white transverse band, beginning at the middle of the costal margin and reaching vein 4 or 3; beyond the middle of both wings runs a single dark transverse band, which, however, is often more distinct than the transverse bands in ''harpalyce'' ; the subapical band of the forewing is white and sharply defined beneath, at least in the anterior part; the cell of both wings beneath with 1-3 black dots. Cameroons, Congo, Angola, ab. ''impunctata'' Bartel only differs in having no black dots in the cells beneath and the white median band of the hindwing only represented by a spot in cellule 7.South Cameroons. - ''inaequabilis'' Thurau has the subapical band of the forewing narrower, above deeply incised proximally at veins 4 and 5 and beneath broken up into spots; the white median band on the underside of the hindwing is also broken up into spots. Uganda. ''wardi'' Druce is very similar to ''losinga'' but differs in having a violet or coppery reflection in the anal area. Beneath both wings are bright light green or bluish green, each with three large black spots in the cell and the forewing with a continuous, sharply defined white subapical band; this is usually finely bordered with black basally; the hindwing bears a rather broad white median band, which is often basally margined with black. Old Calabar and Cameroons. Aurivillius, .O.. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die GroÃŸschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen GroÃŸschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.

Biology

The habitat consists of forests and secondary growth with a closed canopy.

Subspecies

*''E. l. losinga'' (Nigeria, southern Central African Republic, central and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo) *''E. l. knoopi'' Hecq, 1988 (Nigeria) *''E. l. limita'' Hecq, 1978 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Kasai) *''E. l. wardi'' (Druce, 1874) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References

Butterflies described in 1864 losinga Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Limenitidinae-stub