| Bebearia aurora | |
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| B. a. wilverthi in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bebearia |
| Species: | B. aurora |
| Binomial name | |
| Bebearia aurora (Aurivillius, 1896) [1] | |
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Bebearia aurora is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Uganda. [2]
E. aurora Auriv. is only known in the female [1921 ]. The wings are very dark brown above, at the apex of the forewing to vein 5 nearly black; the dark transverse bands are indistinct; the subapical band, which forms a spot in cellule 4 also, and the apex of the forewing are white; from vein 2 of the forewing to vein 2 of the hindwing runs a very indistinctly defined, bluish violet or bronzy median band; the under surface is dull green, in the basal part of the hindwing somewhat darker and beyond the middle interrupted by the thick, somewhat lighter rings of the postdiscal spots; as in many other species, a curved, dark olive-brown stripe runs from the apex of the forewing to the middle of the hindmargin; in addition to the white markings of the upper surface the forewing has a transverse band in the cell and the hindwing a transverse streak in cellule 7. Congo region, on the Ubangi River. [3]
