Neptis livingstonei
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Neptis |
| Species: | N. livingstonei
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Neptis livingstonei is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania.[2]
N. livingstonei Suff. is similar to Neptis agatha [ agatha species group ] , but the median band of the hindwing is much narrower and only reaches vein 6, its spot in cellule 5 is small and not so long as the one in 2; the first marginal line is thicker and placed further from the distal margin and the marginal lines are not interrupted in cellule 3 of the forewing; the discal band of the forewing is narrowed towards the costal margin, as in jordani. German East Africa: Lukuledi. [3]
Known only from the Holotype.
References
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- ^ "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
- ^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.
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