''Neptis serena'', the serene sailer or river sailer, is a
butterfly in the family
Nymphalidae. It is found in
Senegal,
Gambia
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,
Guinea-Bissau,
Guinea
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,
Sierra Leone,
Ghana,
Togo,
Nigeria,
Cameroon, the
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Ethiopia,
Tanzania,
Zambia, northern
Botswana,
Zimbabwe,
Mozambique,
South Africa and
Yemen.
The habitat consists of open, grassy banks of streams and rivers in forests, heavy woodland, coastal bush and savanna.
Adult males
mud-puddle. Adults are on wing from April to January.
The larvae feed on ''
Cycina'' species.
Subspecies
*''Neptis serena serena'' (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal)
*''Neptis serena annah''
Larsen, 1982 (Yemen)
References
Butterflies described in 1955
serena
Serena most commonly refers to:
* Serena Williams (born 1981), professional tennis player
Serena may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Serena (genre), 13th-century Occitan poetic genre
* ''Serena'' (1962 film), a British crime t ...
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