''Euphaedra sarita'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, the

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...

, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
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Description

''E. sarita'' E. Sharpe (44 c), like '' inanum'', has no black markings on the under surface except 1-3 dots in the cells; the ground-colour of the underside is very variable, light green -yellow-green - yellow-brown, and the hindwing has no white median band but occasionally light green submarginal spots; the subapical band of the forewing is in the male above dark green and triangular, beneath quite obsolete or only indicated, in the female whitish; the blue-green hindmarginal spot on the forewing reaches at least to vein 2. Congo - ab. ''abyssinica'' Rothsch. has on the under surface the base of the costal margin of the hindwing bright ochre-yellow and a black spot on the precostal vein. Abyssinia. Aurivillius, .O.. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.

Subspecies

*''Euphaedra sarita sarita'' (Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, central and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda: Semuliki National Park) *''Euphaedra sarita abyssinica'' Rothschild, 1902 (south-western Ethiopia) *''Euphaedra sarita lulua'' Hecq, 1977 (southern Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Similar species

Other members of the '' Euphaedra ceres'' species group

References

Butterflies described in 1891 sarita Butterflies of Africa {{Limenitidinae-stub