Bematistes epaea
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bematistes |
Species: | B. epaea |
Binomial name | |
Bematistes epaea (Cramer, 1779)[1] | |
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Bematistes epaea, the common bematistes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense Guinea savanna.
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Both sexes are mimicked by Elymniopsis bammakoo, Pseudacraea eurytus and Mimacraea darwinia, while the female is also the model for the female of Papilio cynorta. Acraea jodutta is probably a co-mimic.
The larvae feed on Lindaeckeria schweinfurthii, Lindaeckeria dentata and Adenia cisampelloides.
Subspecies
- Bematistes epaea epaea (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Angola, western Democratic Republic of Congo, north-western Tanzania, Zambia)
- Bematistes epaea angustifasciata d'Abrera, 1980 (central and southern Uganda, western Kenya)
- Bematistes epaea bicolorata (Le Doux, 1937) (south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Bematistes epaea epitellus Staudinger, 1896 (coast of Kenya, coast of Tanzania)
- Bematistes epaea homochroa (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905) (southern Ethiopia)
- Bematistes epaea insulana Ackery, 1995 (Bioko)
- Bematistes epaea kivuana (Jordan, 1910) (Democratic Republic of Congo: east to Kivu)
- Bematistes epaea lutosa (Suffert, 1904) (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)
- Bematistes epaea melina (Thurau, 1903) (south-western Tanzania, Malawi: north to the shores of Lake Malawi)
- Bematistes epaea paragea (Grose-Smith, 1900) (Sudan, western Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
References
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- ↑ Acraea, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini
External links
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 58 a
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 59 c paragea
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 59 e homochroa
- Images representing Bematistes epaea at Bold
- Images representing Bematistes epaea melina at Bold
- Images representing Bematistes epaea paragea at Bold
- Images representing Acraea paragea at Bold.
- Images representing Acraea paragea kivuana at Bold.
- Acraea epaea epaea at Pteron
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