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Euriphene
''Euriphene'' is a butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae.The 70 or so member species are confined to the Afrotropical ecozone.They are found mainly in the Guinean Forests of West Africa and the Congolian forests.
==Description==
''Euriphene'' species resemble ''Bebearia''. The upperside ground colour of the males of some species is grey overlain with a metallic steely-blue sheen (''E. barombina'', ''E.coerulea'' and ''E.veronica''). In other species the ground colour is reddish-brown (''E.lysandra'' and ''E.gambiae''). All the species have a distinctive dark bars in the forewing cell and suffused dark markings on the rest of the wings. Many have an apical arc of small white spots.〔Bernard d'Abrera, 2004 ''Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region'', Part 2: Nymphalidae, Libytheidae SBN 978-0-947352-45-5 〕
The head is wide with long, erect palpi. The antennae are very long, with a gradually-formed, robust club. The thorax is robust
and woolly. The wing characters are fore-wings moderately large ; costa very much arched ; apex rather acute ; hind-margin nearly straight.Hind-wings sub-oval ; hind-margin entire, or not strongly scalloped. The abdomen is rather small.
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