Hypolimnas anthedon anthedon Doubleday, 1845

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 39-40

146. Hypolimnas anthedon anthedon Doubleday, 1845

WL: 40mm. H. anthedon is a forest butterfly extending to degraded areas that may attain the Guinea savanna and even gardens in town suburbs. The species exhibits male and female polymorphism, with the distinct morphs mimicking several unpalatable Amauris species. It is distributed all along the forest zone reaching western Kenya; subspecies H. a. wahlbergi flies east of the Rift valley from Kenya to South Africa, while H. a. drucei occurs on Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoro Islands . Known host-plants are species of Urticaceae and Asteraceae .

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, 2 specimens of the morph dubius (JB) . Tombali: Mato de Lautchande ( PNFC), 12.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29085).

Previous references. Regions: Biombo. Authors: Bacelar (1949), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de-Carvalho (1987), Larsen (2005), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2008b).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.

Genus Salamis Boisduval, 1833