Lachnoptera

Lachnoptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae.

Lachnoptera
Blotched Leopard (Lachnoptera ayresii)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Vagrantini
Genus:	Lachnoptera Doubleday, [1847]

Species

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Lachnoptera ayresii Trimen, 1879	Port St. Johns in the Eastern Cape and then along the escarpment to the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga and the Wolkberg in Limpopo, north to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
	Lachnoptera anticlia (Hübner, [1819])	Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.

External links

• Media related to Lachnoptera at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Lachnoptera at Wikispecies
• "Lachnoptera Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms