Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae Liseki, Steven D. Vane-Wright, Richard I. Journal of Natural History 2015 2015-09-30 50 865 904 9235H asterope (Klug, 1832) asterope (Klug 1832 Klug 1832 [427,890,1393,1418] Insecta Nymphalidae Ypthima GBIF Animalia Lepidoptera 13 878 Arthropoda subSpecies asterope asterope  Forewing length: male 12.5 –15.5 mm[mean ( n= 4) 14.35 mm, SD = 0.656]; female 16.0 –18.0 mm [mean ( n= 2) 16.85 mm, SD = 0.354]. Note: as indicated by Kielland (1990, p. 85), who only knew of one reliable record for Tanzaniabased on a single male collected near Amani by T.H.E. Jackson, without dissection this butterfly is very difficult to separate from other species. Larsen (1996, p. 274), however, offered exophenotypic characters for separation, including a difference in antennal segment number between  Y. asteropeand  Ypthima yatta Kielland, 1982, a Kenyan and Ethiopian species considered otherwise to be ‘similar ’. These differences were first noted by Kielland (1982, p. 108), including  Y. asteropereported as having 32 antennal ‘joints ’[segments], but only 29 in  Y. yatta.   Putative records According to notes apparently made by the late Jan Kielland, a pair of  Ypthimafrom Lake Manyara in BMNH (collected by Cooper), formerly identified as  Y. asterope, are  Ypthima antennatavan Son, 1955(SI: Figure 12a –d). Moehlman and Liseki (2003)list  Y. antennataas rare during the wet season at Lake Manyara National Park.  Ypthima asteropeis included here as a possible member of the lower slopes fauna based on four males and two females in OUMNH, long standing over the name  Y. asterope, and which do not appear to be  Y. antennata, collected by Rogers at Taveta, c. 2500 ft, on various dates in 1905. Supposedly found mainly in arid bush, according to Ackery et al. (1995, p. 305),  Y. asteropeoccurs from Indiathrough parts of the Arabian peninsula and much of Africa south of the Sahara, with a separate subspecies (or replacement species: Larsen 1996, p. 275) recognized in the southwest (western Cape, Namibiaand Angola). However, Kielland (1982, p. 107) noted that he had not seen reliable specimens or records from DCR to southern Nigeriaand Ghana, Zambia, Burundi, Rwandaor Malawi. Heath et al. (2002)did not include it among the 11 species they recorded for Zambia. Gifford (1965, p. 92) did include  asteropefor Malawi, but his material (presumed to be in RSM Edinburgh), identified long before Kielland ’s 1982 revision, needs to be checked. If possible, a long series of  Ypthimashould be sought from various areas on the lower slopes, and subject to critical examination.