Identification,Observation and conservation of Butterflies of Nigeria

1. Butterflies
Of Nigeria
Robert Warren

3. Gangirwal: Nigeria’s
highest mountain,
and home to
Colias electo: The
African Clouded
Yellow

4. IDENTIFICATION 1
IDENTIFICATION 1

9. MIMICRY
Models on the left
Mimics on the right

12. IDENTIFICATION 1
OBSERVATION

13. The better you have of the
following, the more butterflies
you will see:
1. Sun
2. Water
3. Quiet
4. Habitat
5. Food (Bait)

19. IDENTIFICATION 1
IDENTIFICATION 2

20. Skippers: small, fast
and whirry.
‘Odd’-looking (closer
to moths), and with a
hook on end of the
antennae.
The African Giant
Skipper
(Pyrrhochalcia iphis)
is common in Lekki

21. Swordtails: large butterflies with very
long tails. Fond of ‘mud-puddling’
Graphium policenes: The Common
Striped Swordtail

22. Sailers: Black and white
Brush-foots with a
distinctive flight pattern
39 species in West Africa,
all of which look similar,
and some of which can
look identical!
How do we know they are
different species? What is
a species?

23. Acraea (pl. Acraeidae):
Brush-foots with long
forewings. Many are
partially transparent
(‘Glass-wings’)
Almost all Acraeidae are
found in Africa

24. IDENTIFICATION 1
CONSERVATION

25. Gashaka &
Mambilla
Okwangwo
IITA
Omo Oban
Okomu

27. Rhoko Forest: protected by CERCOPAN and the community of Iko Esai
New
Ekuri

28. Butterfly Species Accumulation Curve for Rhoko Forest
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29. IDENTIFICATION 1
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