Euphaedra francina, the magnificent forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.[2] The habitat consists of primary wet forests.
E. francina Godt. (42 d) varies but little and is a very easily recognized species. The wings are black above, at the base and hindmargin of the forewing and on the hindwing to beyond the middle a fine (greenish) blue with black spots in the cell (and at the base of cellule lb) on the forewing and a very large, rounded black spot at the end of the cell on the hindwing; the broad black marginal band is nearly always ornamented with large, sharply marked, rounded blue submarginal spots; the subapical band of the forewing is narrow, orange-yellow above, indistinct or whitish yellow beneath; the fringes are dotted with white at the ends of the interneural folds. The under surface is uniform greenish, more or less suffused with yellow or brown-yellow, with 2 or 3 black dots in the cells, but without distinct discal and submarginal spots; the hindwing at least in cellule 7 with the beginning of a narrow white median band, which is there bounded proximally by an angled black transverse streak. Sierra Leone. [3]
Other members of the Euphaedra ceres species group
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Euphaedra francina, the magnificent forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The habitat consists of primary wet forests.
