Phalanta eurytis eurytis Doubleday, 1847

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2018, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamily Helconiinae, Journal of Natural History 52 (39 - 40), pp. 2511-2552 : 2544

Phalanta eurytis eurytis Doubleday, 1847

Larsen 1996: pl. 51, fig. 633i,ii. d ’ Abrera 2004: 261 (2 figs). SI: Figure 33a – d.

Forewing length: male 20.0 – 29.0 mm [mean (n = 5) 25.82 mm, SD = 1.003]; female 24.0 – 31.0 mm [mean (n = 5) 27.52 mm, SD = 1.734].

Note: Males and females are similar, but the female is generally paler, buff- orange rather than bright orange, and slightly more heavily marked. Based on wing patterns, the separation of this species from the next, ‘ in the cabinet ’ let alone in the field, is difficult (see key in SI). That they are separate species there is no doubt, given marked differences in the genitalia of both sexes ( van Son 1979, figs 61 – 64; images of males reproduced in SI Figure 2). The adults of this species are more shade-loving than P. phalantha ( Gifford 1965, p.116, as P. ‘columbina’), perhaps less active ( van Son 1979, p. 8), and largely restricted to forests ( Kielland 1990).