Bematistes umbra

Bematistes umbra
Illustration by Dru Drury
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bematistes
Species: B. umbra
Binomial name
Bematistes umbra
(Drury, [1782])[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio umbra Drury, 1782
  • Acraea umbra (Drury, 1782)
  • Acraea (Acraea) umbra
  • Planema umbra carpenteri le Doux, 1937
  • Planema macaria hemileuca Jordan, 1914
  • Planema macarioides Aurivillius, 1893
  • Planema umbra rabuma Suffert, 1904

Bematistes umbra, the Clouded Bematistes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Adenia cisampelloides.

Subspecies

References

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