Neptis melicerta
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Neptis melicerta, the original club-dot sailer or streaked sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Acacia ataxacantha, , Abrus canescens, and Allophylus species
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- ^ "Neptis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
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