Gnophodes betsimena diversa (Butler, 1880)

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 865-904 : 874

Gnophodes betsimena diversa (Butler, 1880)

Larsen 1996: pl. 28, fig. 396 i. d ’ Abrera 1997: 197 (1 fig.). SI: Figure 7a – d.

Forewing length: male 31.5 – 37 mm [mean (n = 8) 34.36 mm, SD = 1.170]; female 32.0 – 41.5 mm [mean (n = 8) 36.53 mm, SD = 2.579].

Records

Kielland (1990, p. 77) stated that this subspecies occurs in the north, east and south of Tanzania, at altitudes up to 1600 m and ‘ occasionally to 2000 m ’. Not found at 2000 m or above by Liseki (2009), but included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna on the basis of three male and three female specimens in BMNH from Moshi, New Moshi and Engare-Nairobi (where it was collected at 4000 – 5000 ft), and a single female from Taveta, c. 2500 ft, in OUMNH. More widely subspecies diversa extends from northern Kenya (Marsabit) south to the Cape, with the species as a whole found throughout the Afrotropics, including Madagascar ( Smiles 1973; Ackery et al. 1995, p. 280).