Bematistes umbra
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| 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] | |
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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
- Bematistes umbra umbra (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
- Bematistes umbra carpenteri (Le Doux, 1937) (Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)
- Bematistes umbra hemileuca (Jordan, 1914) (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya: west to the Kakamega Forest)
- Bematistes umbra macarioides (Aurivillius, 1893) (Cameroon, Gabon, western Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, north-western Tanzania, Zambia)
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 57 f ssp. macarioides
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 58 e ssp. macarioides f umbra
- Images representing Acraea umbra at Bold.
- Images representing Acraea umbra macarioides at Bold.
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