''Nepheronia argia'', the large vagrant, is a

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

of the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

. It is found throughout Africa.''Nepheronia''
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is 50–65 mm for males and 48–70 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round in warmer areas with peaks in late summer and autumn. The larvae feed on '' Hippocratea longipetolata'', '' Cassipurea ruwenzorensis'', and ''

Ritchiea ''Ritchiea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Capparaceae. Its native range is Tropical Africa. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda Province, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, E ...

'' species.

Subspecies

*''N. a. argia'' (Fabricius, 1775) (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Sudan, northern Uganda) *''N. a. argolisia'' (Stoneham, 1957) (Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, north-western Zambia) *''N. a. mhondana'' (Suffert, 1904) (eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, central and northern Mozambique) *''N. a. varia'' (Trimen, 1864) (South Africa) *''N. a. variegata'' Henning, 1994 (southern Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini) Large vagrant butterfly (Nepheronia argia varia) male.jpg, Male ''N. a. varia'',

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Large vagrant (Nepheronia argia argia) female.jpg, Female ''N. a. argia'', Bobiri Forest,

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References

Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 15
form ''aurora'' Suffert, 1904 Butterflies described in 1775

argia ''Argia'' is a genus of damselflies of the family Coenagrionidae and of the subfamily Argiinae. It is a diverse genus which contains about 114 species and many more to be described. It is also the largest genus in Argiinae. They are found in th ...

Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius {{Pieridae-stub