Salamis anteva
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Salamis anteva is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
It is a butterfly with a black body covered with orange-brown hair; claviform antennae; above the orange-colored, anterior wings edged with black integrating a bluish-whitish spot; posterior also orange and margins along the veins of the wing brown - black. The underside is gray - black and reminds of a dead leaf, which serves as camouflage; a whitish line runs through the wings of the posterior edge of the hindwing of the anterior edge of the forewing: between this "line" and the body, the wings are darker than between the "line" and the edges of the wings. Its wings are bent.
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- ^ Salamis anteva at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1870
- Junoniini
- Taxa named by Christopher Ward (entomologist)
- Butterflies of Africa
- Nymphalinae stubs