Original Club Sailer

Neptis melicerta (Drury)
Papilio melicerta Drury, 1773 [1770-1782], 2: 34; pi. 19, figs. 3 and 4 (Sierra Leone).
Distributed from Sierra Leone to East Africa and south to Angola, this species is quite variable in many details of marking. It is the commonest member of the genus in Liberia and is always found in fields or along the margins of secondary bush.
Liberia: Harbel, 1 $ , I, 3 $ , V, 1 8 , VI, 1 9 , VII, 1 8 , VIII, 1 8 , X, 1 8 , XI; Kpain, 1 9 , V; Ganta, 1 8 , II, 1 9 , III, 3 8 , V, 3 8 , 8 9 , VI, 1 6 , 1 9 , VII, 1 «$ , XII; Wanau Forest, 3 S , I, 4 $ , II, 5 $ ,2 9 , III, 1 8 , VI, 1 8,1 9 , X; Zorzor, 2 8 , V, 1 1 8, XI, 1 8 , XII; trail near Fisabu, 3 8 , XII; Wozi, 1 8 , XII; Yendamalahoun, 5 8,5 9 , IV (Fox) ; eastern Liberia, 16 specimens, III, IV, V (Condamin, 195 J ); Buttikofer (1890). There are three genera in this tribe, one in tropical America, one in tropical Eurasia and one occurring in both Eurasia and Africa.

Neptis melicerta, the original club-dot sailer or streaked sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Acacia ataxacantha, Dalbergia hostilis, Abrus canescens, Abrus pulabellus and Allophylus species