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Lachnoptera

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Lachnoptera
Blotched Leopard (Lachnoptera ayresii)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Vagrantini
Genus: Lachnoptera
Doubleday, [1847]

Lachnoptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae.

Species

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Image Scientific name Distribution
Lachnoptera ayresii Trimen, 1879 Port St. Johns in the Eastern Cape and then along the escarpment to the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga and the Wolkberg in Limpopo, north to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Lachnoptera anticlia (Hübner, [1819]) Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.
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