Euphaedra landbecki
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euphaedra |
| Species: | E. landbecki
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| Euphaedra landbecki Rothschild, 1918[1]
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Euphaedra landbecki is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sankuru in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2]
Original description
[edit]Euphaedra gausape landbecki subsp. nov.
Male. Differs from gausape gausape Butler above in the oblique band of forewing merging more into the ground-colour and being much greener, also green of hindwing is much more saturated with yellow. Female. Differs in the green portions of both wings being suffused with yellow and the oblique band with green.Habitat. Luebo, Kassai River (P. Landbeck), 4 males, 2 females. [3]
Etymology
[edit]Paul Landbeck was a German consul in Congo and author of Kongoerinnerungen; zwölf Jahre Arbeit und Abenteuer im Innern Afrikas Publisher Berlin : A. Scherl 1912
References
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- ^ "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
- ^ Rothschild, W. 1918 Some Apparently New Forms of African Nymphalidae Novitates Zoologicae 25 : 338-345
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