Post by mcheki on May 29, 2017 8:44:27 GMT -8
One Euphaedra that is not often seen, is Euphaedra neophron, found east of the Rift Valley in Kenya and Tanzania and extending southwards through Malawi to Natal in South Africa. This occurs in seven subspecies and also some intermediates found on some of the isolated mountains in Tanzania.
The photograph shows males of five of these subspecies and one intermediate to give an idea of their variability. The sixth subspecies is E n violacea from north east Tanzania and the seventh subspecies is E n ellenbeckie from north east Kenya and nearby Somalia.
In the photo the top left male is E n neophron (this one from Malawi), the top centre is E n littoralis (this one from the Kenya coast) and the top right is the Nguru mountains (in Tanzania) population.
The bottom left is E n meruensis (Mbeu Forest, Mt Kenya) with E n kiellandi (Ifaka, Tanzania) in the centre and E n rydoni (endemic to Pemba Island) on the bottom right.
The females are similar to the males but generally larger.
