Heteropsis elisi

Heteropsis elisi, the western patroller, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Tanzania.^[2] The nominate subspecies is found in dense Guinea savanna and the margins of semi-deciduous forest. Subspecies H. e. uluguru is found in open grassland and shrubs at altitudes between 1,000 and 1,400 meters.

Heteropsis elisi
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Heteropsis
Species:	H. elisi
Binomial name
Heteropsis elisi (Karsch, 1893)[1]
Synonyms
Mycalesis elisi Karsch, 1893 Henotesia elisi Henotesia elisi var. evanida Thurau, 1903 Henotesia elisi tanzanica Kielland, 1994 Henotesia elisi uluguru Kielland, 1990

Subspecies

• Heteropsis elisi elisi (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo)
• Heteropsis elisi tanzanica (Kielland, 1994) (Tanzania: Bondwa Mountain)
• Heteropsis elisi uluguru (Kielland, 1990) (Tanzania: east to the Uluguru Mountains)