| Bebearia luteola | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bebearia |
| Species: | B. luteola |
| Binomial name | |
| Bebearia luteola (Bethune-Baker, 1908) [1] | |
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Bebearia luteola is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Mongala, Uele, north Kivu, Tshopo and Lualaba). [2]
E. luteola Baker. Upper surface of both wings deep velvety blackish bronzy green; forewing beyond the cell and vein 3 somewhat lighter (yellowish) bronzy green; this lighter colour, however, reaches neither the base nor the distal margin; in the cell there are three dark spots, one at the base, one in the middle and a larger one at the apex; a yellowish oblique band between the costal margin and vein 5, terminating in cellule 4 with a yellow patch; the apex usually with a small yellow spot; an indistinct row of dark submarginal spots; on the hindwing the bronze-green colour often extends nearly to the distal margin; a trace of a dark submarginal line. Beneath both wings olive-green with all the markings of the upper surface more or less showing through: the base of the costal margin of the forewing is light bluish white to the middle of the cell; the forewing with dark, sometimes obsolete submarginal spots; the hindwing with three black spots in the cell and a white transverse spot at the middle of cellule 7; the postdiscal spots and the submarginal line dark but not sharply defined; cellules 1 a—2 more or less suffused with yellowish. Expanse 77 mm. Congo. [3]
