Yellow-base Sailer

Neptis metella

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae

Neptis metella, the yellow-base sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, from Nigeria to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

Distribution

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Sources and credits

PhotoDelabye S, Maicher V, Sáfián S, Potocký P, Mertens JE.J, Przybyłowicz Ł, Murkwe M, Kobe IN, Fokam EB, Janeček Š, Tropek R · CC BY DescriptionNeptis metella, Wikipedia contributors

Yellow-base Sailer

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