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:
An excellent online resources:
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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- "Les Papillons du Zaire" (Berger, 1981) - Out of date, but an incredible book for it's time...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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