Euphaedra landbecki
Species of butterfly
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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]
| Euphaedra landbecki | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euphaedra |
| Species: | E. landbecki |
| Binomial name | |
| Euphaedra landbecki Rothschild, 1918[1] | |
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Original description
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
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
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