Biology:Bicyclus cooksoni

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Bicyclus cooksoni
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Figure 1 which accompanied the original description
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bicyclus
Species:
B. cooksoni
Binomial name
Bicyclus cooksoni
(H. H. Druce, 1905)[1]
Synonyms
  • Mycalesis cooksoni H. H. Druce, 1905
  • Mycalesis cooksoni f. latior Riley, 1921

Bicyclus cooksoni is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1905. It is found in northern Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern and western Tanzania and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland and open montane grassland-forest mosaic.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4903834 entry