Bebearia barombina

Large green forester
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. barombina
Binomial name
Bebearia barombina (Staudinger, 1896) [1]
Synonyms
Euryphene barombinaStaudinger, 1896 Bebearia (Bebearia) barombina Euphaedra descarpentriesiFox, 1968

Bebearia barombina, the large green forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the south-western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

E. barombina Stgr. (44 d) is similar to the preceding species [ Bebearia chilonis ], but differs in having the subapical band of the forewing entirely absent in the male and in the female only represented by a small yellowish spot near the base of cellules 5 and 6; the green median band is narrower and reaches vein 4 of the forewing; the under surface is darker, greyish green, with two indistinct transverse rows of dark spots in the distal part, but without submarginal line; the white spot at the apex of the forewing very large in the female.This species is also rare and is only found at the Barombi Station in the Cameroons. ^[3]

Adults feed on fallen fruit.

References

1. "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
3. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .