Biology:Bebearia phantasina

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Bebearia phantasina
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In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bebearia
Species:
B. phantasina
Binomial name
Bebearia phantasina
(Staudinger, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
  • Euryphene phantasiella var. phantasina Staudinger, 1891
  • Bebearia (Bebearia) phantasina
  • Bebearia phantasiella phantasina
  • Bebearia ultima Hecq, 1990

Bebearia phantasina, the western fantasia, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.

Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit.

Subspecies

  • Bebearia phantasina phantasina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • Bebearia phantasina ultima Hecq, 1990 (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)

References

  1. "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini

Wikidata ☰ Q4878405 entry