| Bebearia cottoni | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bebearia |
| Species: | B. cottoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Bebearia cottoni (Bethune-Baker, 1908) [1] | |
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Bebearia cottoni is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the central basin). [2]
it is described as follows: Male. Both wings with alternate black-brown and tawny transverse stripes and rows of spots; forewing with three spots in the cell and one behind its apex, which is confluent with an oblique transverse row of black spots, then follows a broad transverse band, interrupted at the veins and at vein 6 angled to the costal margin; outside this band the forewing is black-brown with large black submarginal spots surrounded with tawny; hindwing with darkened basal area and broad median tawny band, followed by a broad curved dark band tapering towards the inner margin; a postmedian curved row of large black spots broadly surrounded with tawny; a broad, sharply defined, black, scalloped submarginal line; beneath both wings are light ochreous brown with indications of the markings of the upper surface. In the female both wings are paler brown above with dusky ochreous markings; the forewing with clear pale ochreous subapical band and the hindwing with broad, indefinite, median band of the same colour. 60—74 mm. Congo region, at Makala and Beni Mawambe. [3]
