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Ph. shepherdi nectens (de Niceville) 



Neptis (Phaedyma) nectens de Niceville, 1897b : 548, pi. 1, fig. 3 $. Ke Islands. 

 Neptis (Phaedyma) shepherdi nectens de Niceville ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 618. 

 Neptis (Phaedyma) shepherdi expectata (Fruhstorfer), 1913 : 618. Sula Is. [loc. err.], syn. n. 

 $ type Berlin. 



Key Is. 



Ph. shepherdi gregalis (Joicey & Noakes) comb. n. 

 Neptis shepherdi gregalis Joicey & Noakes, 1915 : 192, pi. 26, fig. 5 q\ <^$ Biak. Types BMNH. 

 Schouten Is. (Biak). 



Ph. shepherdi maculosa (Joicey & Talbot) comb. & stat. n. 



Neptis maculosa Joicey & Talbot, 1922a : 351. Mefor Is. 9 type BMNH. 



Mefor Is. 



Phaedyma ampliata (Butler) 



Neptis ampliata Butler, 1882 : 42. New Britain. $ type BMNH. 



Neptis eblis Butler, 1882 : 43. New Britain, stat. n. $ type BMNH. $ dimorph with 



obsolete markings. 

 Neptis eblis Butler ; Grose Smith & Kirby, 1895 : 1, pi. Neptis 1, figs. 1, 2. 

 Neptis fiscizonata [misspelling] Ribbe (nee Butler), 1898 : 122. 

 Neptis eblis Butler ; Ribbe, 1898 : 122. 

 Neptis eleuthera Grose Smith, 1899 : 9, pi. Neptis 3, figs. 3, 4 $. Stephansort, German New 



Guinea [loc. err.], syn. n. $ type BMNH. 

 Neptis pisias fissizonata Pageristecher (nee Butler), 1900 : 85. 

 Neptis ampliata Butler ; Pagenstecher, 1900 : 86, pi. 1, fig. 6 ' $ ' recte $. 



Phaedyma fissizonata lydda Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 380. Neu-Pommern, Neu-Lauenburg. syn. n. 

 Neptis (Phaedyma) ampliata ampliata Butler ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 617. 

 Neptis (Phaedyma) ampliata eleuthera Grose Smith ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 617. 

 Neptis (Phaedyma) fissizonata lydda (Fruhstorfer) Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 617. 

 Neptis (Phaedyma) eblis eblis Butler ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 617. 



Hitherto eblis has been regarded as a distinct species. Apart from the discal 

 and postdiscal markings being obsolete it is marked exactly as ampliata, of which it is 

 unquestionably a dimorph, apparently confined to the female sex and considerably 

 outnumbering the typical form (in BMNH there are 17 $ f. eblis and only 4 $ f. 

 ampliata as well as 14 <$ f. ampliata). Ribbe (1898) recorded males of eblis, saying 

 that they resembled the female but were smaller. However, in view of his (and 

 Pagenstecher's) apparent inability to recognize the sexes of f. ampliata, his statement 

 cannot be accepted at face value. 



The confusion between ampliata and fissizonata was due to this inability on the 

 part of Ribbe and Pagenstecher, who recorded $ f . ampliata as fissizonata and $ f . 

 ampliata as ampliata without distinction of the sexes (Pagenstecher figured a female 

 ampliata as the male from an example sent him as such by Ribbe). Fruhstorfer 

 added to the confusion by giving the supposed 'fissizonata ' the subspecific name 



