Nepheronia argia, the large vagrant, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found throughout Africa.
The wingspan is 50âÂÂ65 mm for males and 48âÂÂ70 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round in warmer areas with peaks in late summer and autumn.
The larvae feed on Hippocratea longipetolata, Cassipurea ruwenzorensis, and Ritchiea species.
Subspecies
- N. a. argia <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Sudan, northern Uganda)
- N. a. argolisia <small>(Stoneham, 1957)</small> (Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, north-western Zambia)
- N. a. mhondana <small>(Suffert, 1904)</small> (eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, central and northern Mozambique)
- N. a. varia <small>(Trimen, 1864)</small> (South Africa)
- N. a. variegata <small>Henning, 1994</small> (southern Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini)
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