Neptis lugubris
Neptis lugubris is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in south-western Uganda, Kenya and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It resembles a small example of Neptis agatha with much reduced
white discal bands, and is described as having no white dot in forewing cell above or beneath. The state of the forewing.
submarginal lines is not described, but from the photograph they would appear to be continuous. The locality is given as Lake Tanganyika. Only one example was received. The holotype was collected by Rudolf Grauer. It is in Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
Very little is known about this butterfly.
Taxonomy
It is the nominotypical member of the Neptis lugubris sub-groupof the Neptis nysiades group
The members of the subgroup are
- Neptis lugubris
- Neptis angelae
- Neptis paulinae
- ''Neptis biafra''