Lachnoptera ayresii Trimen, 1879

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2018, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamily Helconiinae, Journal of Natural History 52 (39 - 40), pp. 2511-2552 : 2543

Lachnoptera ayresii Trimen, 1879

Larsen 1996: pl. 51, fig. 631i,ii. d ’ Abrera 2004: 261 (1 fig., as L. anticlia ayresii ). SI: Figure 32a – f.

Forewing length: male 28.5 – 34.0 mm [mean (n = 8) 31.59 mm, SD = 1.124]; female 30.5 – 36.0 mm [mean (n = 7) 33.56 mm, SD = 1.443].

Note: sexually dimorphic, the male in a single orange morph with a dark grey androconial brand near the foremargin of the hindwing, the female more heavily marked, with ground colour varying from pale whitish-buff to orange (in some females almost as orange as the males).