Biology:Bicyclus vulgaris

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Bicyclus vulgaris
Vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris).jpg
In Ghana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bicyclus
Species:
B. vulgaris
Binomial name
Bicyclus vulgaris
(Butler, 1868)[1]
Synonyms
  • Mycalesis vulgaris Butler, 1868
  • Mycalesis tolosa Plötz, 1880

Bicyclus vulgaris, the vulgar bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, western Kenya, Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests (including pre-forest and riparian forest), dense savanna, the edges of farmland, woodland and marshy areas.

The larvae feed on Poaceae species.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4903906 entry