• Source: Heteropsis nigrescens

Heteropsis nigrescens is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
H. nigrescens Baker is evidently nearly allied to the preceding species [ Heteropsis peitho] and is described as follows:Male : Both wings deep velvety blackish brown, with small ocellated spots. Prim aries [anterior wings] with two small subapical intense black spots minutely but distinctly pupilled with white and having red irides which touch each other; a larger similar spot near the termen between veins 2 and 3; secondaries posterior wings with a similar spot as in the primaries between veins 2 and 3, near the termen, with occasionally a trace of another similar one above it.Underside: both wings tawny ochreous, closely suffused with fine, deep, rusty, vein-like, wavy lines, terminating to a large extent in the postmedian area by a prominent deep rusty line through both wings with a broad greyish subterminal area in which the white-pupilled black spots show through, the upper two having a single ochreous iris, the lower one with a very broad ochreous iris with a dark outer edging: secondaries with a rusty median transverse line and a curved series of seven or eight ocellated spots as in the forewings. Expanse 46 mm. Hab. Makala, May and June 1906.




Subspecies


Heteropsis nigrescens nigrescens (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Heteropsis nigrescens striata (Libert, 2006) (Cameroon)




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Heteropsis nigrescens
• Heteropsis (butterfly)
• List of butterflies of Cameroon
• List of butterflies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of butterflies of Nigeria
• List of least concern insects
• List of least concern arthropods