Amauris (Amaura) ochlea ochlea (Boisduval, 1847)

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 : 873-874

[ Amauris (Amaura) ochlea ochlea (Boisduval, 1847) ]

Larsen 1996: pl. 27, fig. 389 i. d ’ Abrera 1997: 189 (1 fig., of A. ochlea affinis ). Kielland 1990: 272 (1 fig., of A. ochlea bumilleri ). SI: Figure 6e – h.

Forewing length: male 33.5 – 39.5 mm [mean (n = 5) 35.90 mm, SD = 1.631]; female 36 – 41.5 mm [mean (n = 6) 39.12 mm, SD = 1.429].

Records

Kielland (1990, p. 75) considered the nominate race of A. ochlea in Tanzania to be coastal, occurring inland up to 1000 m in the Uluguru and Nguru Mountains, and on the Udzungwa escarpment. Although we have not found any Kilimanjaro material in BMNH or OUMNH, and Cordeiro (1990) did not encounter this butterfly in Lake Manyara National Park, with several specimens in BMNH from the East Usambaras , we consider this distinctive species a possible member of the lower slopes fauna . The nominate race is east African , found from Kenya south to Natal . The four other recognized subspecies occupy western Tanzania, the Horn of Africa and the Comoro Islands ( Ackery et al. 1995, p. 276) .