''Euphaedra zaddachii'', or Zaddach's mimic forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the

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, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda,

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

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, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
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Description

''E. zaddachi'' Dew. (44 c). Forewing black above, with slight greenish reflection and with no other markings but the two yellow, continuous transverse bands; marginal band of the hindwing above unspotted, beneath with 2 black submarginal spots in each cellule; cell of the forewing beneath greenish yellow with 3 black dots, that of the hindwing beneath with two dots, above unspotted; hindwing beneath more or less suffused with light yellow in the middle. Cameroons to Angola and German East Africa. - ab. ''Christyi'' E. Sharpe now species ''Euphaedra christyi'' ">Euphaedra_christyi.html" ;"title="now species ''Euphaedra christyi">now species ''Euphaedra christyi'' only differs in having both surfaces of the hindwing ochre-yellow instead of red, only the underside red at the costal margin. Toro. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 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.

Biology

The habitat consists of forests, including riparian forests and heavy woodland. It is a mimic of day-flying moths. The larvae feed on ''

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Subspecies

*''Euphaedra zaddachii zaddachii'' (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo) *''Euphaedra zaddachii crawshayi'' Butler, 1895 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Uganda: Semuliki National Park, western Lake Victoria, south-eastern Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia) *''Euphaedra zaddachii elephantina'' Staudinger, 1891 (eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon, northern Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Moyen Congo)

Similar species

Other members of the '' Euphaedra zaddachii'' species group q.v.

References

Butterflies described in 1879 zaddachii Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Hermann Dewitz {{Limenitidinae-stub