Maputa District
Basic information
Sample name: Maputa District

Reference: C. J. Swiestra. 1915. On a collection of butterflies made in the Maputa District, Port. S.E. Africa, by Dr H. G. Breyer, Director of the Transvaal Museum, during the month of June, 1914. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 5:104-110 [ER 2953]
Geography
Country: Mozambique


Coordinate: 25° 28' S, 32° 35' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "Maputa District, Port. S.E. Africa" (coordinate based on Maputo)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: unknown

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: none given

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: no design

Sample size: 297 individuals

Years: 1914

Sampling comments: no details given, but individuals were preserved
"Danaida" chrysippus was "Practically met with everywhere, but not in large numbers" and was not collected

Metadata
Sample number: 3146

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-12-31 12:13:03

Modified: 2018-12-31 01:13:03

Abundance distribution
42 species
13 singletons
total count 297
geometric series index: 76.2
Fisher's α: 13.349
geometric series k: 0.9204
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9488
Shannon's H: 3.2341
Good's u: 0.9563
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Melanitis leda6
Acraea acrita1
Acraea nohara1
Acraea aglaonice1
Acraea oncaea18
Acraea rahira3
Acraea serena18
"Acraea terpsichore rougeti"
Acraea encedon30
includes 14 specimens of "Acraea encedon sganzini"
Junonia oenone5
"Precis clelia"
Eurytela dryope7
Byblia ilithyia3
Sevenia natalensis2
"Crenis natalensis"
Hamanumida daedalus2
"Hamanumida daedalus leagris"
Charaxes brutus natalensis2
Charaxes jahlusa1
Lachnocnema bibulus1
Hypolycaena philippus1
Iolaus silas1
Cigaritis natalensis2
"Spindasis natalensis"
Cigaritis mozambica1
"Spindasis mozambica"
Leptotes pirithous1
"Cupido telicanus"
Lampides boeticus1
"Cupido baetica"
Eicochrysops messapus2
"Cupido mahallokoaena"
Herpaenia eriphia3
"Herpaenia eriphia"
Belenois creona3
"Pieris severina"
Belenois aurota1
"Pieris mesentina"
Dixeia spilleri18
"Pieris spilleri"
Colotis vesta mutans9
"Teracolus vesta mutans"
Colotis eris18
"Teracolus eris"
Colotis ione19
"Teracolus ione"
Colotis regina15
"Teracolus regina"
Colotis danae20
"Teracolus annae"
Colotis euippe omphale7
"Teracolus omphala"
Colotis antevippe8
"Teracolus achine"
Colotis evagore antigone25
"Teracolus antigone"
Colotis auxo11
"Teracolus auxo"
Colotis subfasciatus7
"Teracolus subfasciatus"
Eronia cleodora7
Catopsilia florella7
Eurema senegalensis1
"Terias senegalensis"
Eurema brigitta7
"Terias brigitta": includes 4 specimens of "Terias brigitta zoe"
Graphium porthaon1
"Papilio porthaon"