After much online research and some help from a butterfly guide who works for Ashanti I have finally been able to put a name to all the butterflies we saw in Ghana back in November/December.
Ghana was excellent for butterflies and we saw loads. Especially good spots were the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary and especially the Atewa Range where we were blown away by the variety, many of them quite spectacular. Ashanti run specialised butterfly tours to the country and I can see why.
Here are the ones I managed to photograph and id.
Blue Diamed
Dark Blue Pansy
Soldier Pansy
Common Ringlet
Plain Tiger
Ussher's Palla
Light Bush Brown
Western Yellow-banded Swallowtail
Gussfeldt's Ginger White
Broad-banded Green Swallowtail
Forest Glade Nymph
Forest Admiral
Common Red Glider
Small Orange Dancer
Western Blue Beauty
Common Commodore
Common White-banded Swallowtail
Common Fairy Hairstreak
Veronica Nymph
Forest Caper White
Blood Red Glider
Cambridge Vagrant
Alicnoe Bermatistes
Mocker Swallowtail
Widespread Forester
Various!
African Map Butterfly
Veined Swallowtail
Long-tailed Striped Swallowtail and Spotted Hairtail
Sabine Albatross
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