Biology:Euphaedra olivacea
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euphaedra |
| Species: | E. olivacea
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Euphaedra olivacea is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in central and western Uganda.[3]
It is a member of the Euphaedra preussi species group q.v. ab. olivacea Grunb. Seitz - has the upper surface uniformly dark except for the white subapical band, without a trace of light or dark submarginal spots on the hindwing and the under surface quite as uniform brownish green with the black cell-spots much reduced. Uganda.It was described as an aberration of preussi later raised to a species by Carcasson.[4]
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- ↑ "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Grünberg, K., 1908. Neue Lepidopteren aus Uganda. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1908: 50–62.
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
- ↑ Ackery P. R., Smith C. R., and Vane-Wright R. I., eds. 1995. Carcasson's African butterflies - An Annotated Catalogue of the Papilionidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. Canberra: CSIRO. A collated edited and amplified version of Carcasson's manuscripts
Wikidata ☰ Q5410225 entry
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