Neocoenyra gregorii Butler, 1894

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 : 877-878

Neocoenyra gregorii Butler, 1894

Larsen 1996: pl. 30, fig. 445 i,ii. d ’ Abrera 1997: 245 (2 figs). SI: Figure 10e – h.

Forewing length: male 17.5 – 21.5 mm [mean (n = 8) 19.80 mm, SD = 1.032]; female 18.0 – 23.0 mm [mean (n = 6) 20.52 mm, SD = 1.038].

Records

Open areas at 1200 – 2200 m in the Northern Highlands and Singida area; possibly also at Iringa, and in the Mpanda and Kigoma districts ( Kielland 1990, p. 89) . Not encountered by Liseki (2009), but included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna on the basis of a single male collected by Cooper on West Kilimanjaro at 4500 – 5000 ft ( BMNH) . In addition, the BMNH has a male from Mt Meru, June – July 1938, also ex Cooper . However, there does not appear to be any Kilimanjaro or Taveta material in OUMNH . Beyond Tanzania this species occurs in Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, DRC (east) and Malawi, at altitudes up to 3000 m ( Larsen 1996, p. 279) . Larsen (1996, p. 280) also recorded it from Zambia, but this was not substantiated by Heath et al. (2002).

The status of this species on Kilimanjaro requires further investigation.