''Euphaedra eberti'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...

in the family

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. It is found in the

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, the

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and

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Description

''E. eberti'' Auriv. (44 d) is perhaps only an extreme form of ''

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'', with which it is connected to some extent by ''niveovittata'' ; on the other hand it approximates closely to the forms '' sarita'' and '' inanum'', scarcely differing from them except in the reddish spot at the base of the costal margin on the underside of the hindwing. Both wings beneath without black discal spots and with indistinct or greenish, small submarginal spots; the subapical band of the forewing is in the entirely absent on both surfaces or is white, as in the female: the male the forewing above is marked quite as in ''sarita'' (44 c), with green or blue spots on the fore wing which are not sharply defined; the under surface has distinct black spots in the cells and often also at the base of cellule 8 on the hindwing and in the male a brown-yellow ground-colour, which is only in the cell and in cellule 7 of the hindwing more or less tinged with bluish; in the female the under surface is darker, grey-brown, but often broadly suffused with light bluish in the basal part of both wings; the hindwing wing has usually a broad white median band between vein 3 and the costal margin.Aurivillius, .O.. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.

Subspecies

*''Euphaedra eberti eberti'' (northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic) *''Euphaedra eberti hamus'' Berger, 1940 (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda: Semuliki National Park, Rwenzori)

References

Butterflies described in 1896 eberti Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius {{Limenitidinae-stub