Appias (Glutophrissa) sabina phoebe (Butler, 1901)

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2014, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: family Pieridae, subfamily Pierinae, Journal of Natural History 48 (25 - 26), pp. 1543-1583 : 1564

Appias (Glutophrissa) sabina phoebe (Butler, 1901)

Larsen 1996: pl. 10, figs 95 i,ii. d’ Abrera 1997: 107 (4 figs). SI: Figures 24g,h; 25a–h.

Forewing length: male 24–29 mm (mean (n = 6) 26.73 mm, SD = 1.914); female 26– 30.5 mm (mean (n = 6) 28.50 mm, SD = 1.226).

Records. Forests and heavy woodland, at 800–1600 m, in most parts of Tanzania except in an area north from Kigoma to the Uganda border, where it is replaced by A. s. sabina Felder and Felder ( Kielland 1990, p.65) . Cordeiro (1990) encountered this species in Lake Manyara National Park. Included as part of the lower slopes fauna of Kilimanjaro on the basis of several specimens in BMNH collected by F.J. Jackson, B. Cooper and F. C. Selous. More widely the subspecies occurs in eastern Africa from northern Kenya (Marsabit) to northeastern Transvaal, with the species as a whole found west to Sierra Leone, and on the Comoros and Madagascar ( Ackery et al. 1995, p.215).

Males and females of this species are variable, both with a number of named forms, some of which we have illustrated (SI). For separation from A. epaphia , see notes under that species.