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broken up into spots and the spot in cellule 1 b very small or absent; the ground-colour in fresh specimens is almost black and the sharply defined marginal band of the hindwing in both sexes is 9-11mm. in breadth; the base of the hindwing is nearly black above, dark brown beneath; thus the sexes differ but little from one another. - Larva whitish green with long yellowish spines, yellow-brown head, and blue dots dorsally and laterally. Pupa whitish green with four pairs of long light red dorsal spines as in camerunica and small divaricating horns on the head. This species in the only endemic Planema in South Africa and is distributed from Kaffirland to Zambesi; in East Africa it is represented by
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then with broad orange-yellow median band and sharply defined blackish marginal band about 6 mm. in breadth; the under surface only differs in the somewhat paler ground-colour and the sharply defined red-brown basal part of the hindwing. The female is larger with white transverse band, 8–10 mm. in breadth, on the forewing, which, as in the male is deeply incised proximally both in cellule 3 and at vein 2, and with a white median band on the hind wing, 14–15 mm. in breadth; the marginal band of the hindwing is sharply defined, as in the and has thick black streaks on the interneural folds. Nyassaland to British East Africa. female-ab.
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Btlr. (58 d ) male- forewing above blackish with a narrow orange-yellow transverse band only about 5–6 mm. in breadth, which is proximally incised especially in cellule 3, reaches vein2 and is accompanied by a usually free spot in cellule lb; the hindwing above at the base narrowly black-brown,
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Hew. (58 d) nearly approaches the preceding species , but has a narrower transverse band on the forewing and especially a much narrower median band on the hindwing; these are in the male white-yellow or white, in the female white; the transverse band of the forewing is in the male often almost
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Suff. has the transverse band of the forewing in the male only 2.5–3 mm. in breadth and the median band of the hindwing in the female light yellow instead of white. Nyassaland. . The
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List of the Lepidoptera collected in East Africa, 1894, by Mr. William Astor Chanler and Lieutenant Ludwig von Höhnel
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East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler
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Adults are on wing year round, but are more common from the end of October to March.
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Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre
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Rogenh. Transverse band of the hindwing smoky yellowish. Meru Mountain, ab.
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Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter
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is 60–65 mm for males and 70–75 mm for females.
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Bematistes
Binomial name
Hewitson
Synonyms
William A. Chanler
butterfly
Nymphalidae
Africa
Glossary of entomology terms

wingspan
Passiflora edulis
Passiflora incarnata
Passiflora caerulea
Adenia gummifera
Bematistes
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Orator Fuller Cook, East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1895.
William Jacob Holland, List of the Lepidoptera collected in East Africa, 1894, by Mr. William Astor Chanler and Lieutenant Ludwig von Höhnel, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1896.
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