Bebearia barce

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Shining green forester
Bebearia barce female.jpg
Female (specimen, dorsal side)
Shining green forester (Bebearia barce barce) male.jpg
Male (underside) from Ghana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bebearia
Species:
B. barce
Binomial name
Bebearia barce
(Doubleday, 1847) [1]
Synonyms
  • Aterica barceDoubleday, 1847
  • Bebearia (Apectinaria) barce
  • Euryphene lesbonaxHewitson, 1864
  • Euryphene barce ab. achillaenaBartel, 1905
  • Euryphene barce race maculataAurivillius, 1912

Bebearia barce, the shining green forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. [2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to fallen fruit.

The larvae feed on Hypselodelphys species

Subspecies

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References

  1. "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Learn about butterflies". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-03-03.