On a recent birding trip to Ghana we saw and photographed many butterflies, a few dragonflies, moths and other species which I've documented on this page. Some were identified by our guide James at Ashanti African Tours, others later from online resources including iNaturalist: Ghana butterflies · iNaturalist
Blue Vagrant Nepheronia thalassina
Common Ceres Forester Euphaedra phaethusa
Common Ceres Forester (underwing)
Common Tiger Danaus chrysippus
Western Dotted Border Mylothris chloris
Emperor Swallowtail?
Pearl Character?
Janetta Themis Forester Euphaedra janetta
Western Red Glider (female)
Western Red Glider Cymothoe mabillei
Round-winged Orange-Tip Colotis euippe
Soldier Commodore Junonia terea
Striped Policeman Coeliades forestan
Dancing Amber (lower right) Telchinia serena and Small Branded Swift Pelopidas mathias
Fashion Commodore Precis pelarga
Common Leopard Phalanta phalantha
Dark Blue Pansy Junonia oenone
Blue Diadem Hypolimnas salmacis
Eleus Orange Forester Euphaedra eleus
False Chief Pseudacrae lucretia
unidentified white
unidentified skipper
unidentified nymphalid
We also saw African Map, Widespread Forester, Citrus Swallowtail and several Green-banded Swallowtail sp. that I didn't photograph as well as many other smaller butterflies that remained unidentified.
We saw surprisingly few moths, even around lights that were on all night around the lodges. I could only identify the first of these as I've seen it in the UK.
Crimson Speckled
moth sp 1
moth sp 2
There were a couple of mantis seen, both unidentified to species level.
There were a lot of dragonflies seen, some of which we managed to photograph. So far, only a few have been identified so this is still work in progress.
Northern Banded Groundling
Portia Widow
Western Bluewing
dragonfly sp 1
dragonfly sp 2, some sort of 'red' darter
dragonfly sp 3
dragonfly sp 4
dragonfly sp 5 - this was active at night in Mole NP
dragonfly sp 6
Aside from the ants which were the least welcome of our insect encounters, perhaps the most interesting insects were these strange dancing critters:
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