Neptis angelae, Aduse-Poku & Lohman & Richardson, 2022

Aduse-Poku, Kwaku, Lohman, David J. & Richardson, Ian D., 2022, Revision of the genus Neptis Fabricius, 1807 (Papilionoidea: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region, Part 4: The phylogeny of the Nysiades group with eight new species, Metamorphosis 33 (1), pp. 130-163 : 144-145

Neptis angelae sp. nov. ( Fig. 20 )

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Only one male specimen of N. angelae is known to date, from Ekombe , Équateur province in the DRC. The specimen was captured during an ABRI sponsored expedition to revisit localities recorded by reverend father Gustaaf Hulstaert (1900–1990), a Belgian missionary belonging to the Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus The single specimen is in the ABRI collection and is selected as the holotype, see Fig. 20 along with specimens of the other two related species .

Holotype: ♂ Ekombe , 73km Mbandaka, Équateur province, DRC, 00°24ʹ S, 18°23ʹ E, (-0.4000°, 18.3833°),

330 m, ix.2016, ABRI-150658, ABRI collection. Paratypes: None

Figures

Figure 20 – Neptis angelae sp. nov., Neptis paulinae sp. nov., and Neptis lugubris Rebel, 1914: N. angelae holotype ♂: ABRI-150658, Ekombe, DRC, ix.2014, a dorsal, b ventral; N. paulinae holotype ♀: ABRI-162726, Otto Maber, DRC, ix.2016, c dorsal, d ventral; N. lugubris ♂: ABRI-152640, Biakato, DRC, vi 2011, e dorsal, f ventral; N. lugubris ♀: ABRI-152648, Kibale, DRC, vi 2013, g dorsal, h ventral.