Part-time Lepidopterist based in northeastern DRC since 2013. Member of the Afrotropical Butterflies and Skippers Encyclopaedia editorial team.

Always happy to help provide IDs for African butterflies.

Identification guides:

• Amauris echeria Group
• Hypolimnas misippus / Danaus chrysippus Mimicry Ring
• Phalanta phalantha / Phalanta eurytis Comparison
• Central African Spialia
• Zizeeria, Zizina, Zizula
• Eurema, Terias Subgenus
• Belenois gidica / aurota / creona
• Eurytela dryope

An excellent online resources:

• http://acraea.com/ (takes a bit of getting used to, and uses an old taxonomic system which iNaturalist no-longer employs, but all African Acraea, Telchinia, Stephenia, Rubraea, Tildia, & Bematistes can be ID'd using this website.)

My favourite offline resources:

• "Les Papillons du Zaire" (Berger, 1981) - Out of date, but an incredible book for it's time... and really the only comprehensive book on butterflies in DRC.
• "Papillons du Gabon" (Vande weghe, 2010) - Another amazingly comprehensive book.
• Torben Larsen's manuscript on African Skippers
• Michel Libert's various revisions

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