Salamis anteva is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.[1] The habitat consists of forests.
It is a butterfly with a black body covered with orange-brown hair; claviform antennae; above the orange-colored, anterior wings edged with black integrating a bluish-whitish spot; posterior also orange and margins along the veins of the wing brown - black. The underside is gray - black and reminds of a dead leaf, which serves as camouflage; a whitish line runs through the wings of the posterior edge of the hindwing of the anterior edge of the forewing: between this "line" and the body, the wings are darker than between the "line" and the edges of the wings. Its wings are bent.