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Neptis alta

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Neptis alta
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Neptis alta, the old sailer or high sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and northern Botswana.[2] The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland.

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Adult males mud-puddle in the dry season. Adults are on wing from August to October and again from April to May.

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Taxonomy

It is a member of the Neptis agatha species group and also of the rogersi sub-group of the nysiades group The members of the rogersi subgroup are

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