Bematistes epaea
Common bematistes | |
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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] | |
Synonyms | |
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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.
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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