| Bebearia mandinga | |
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| B. m. mandinga Kakum National Park, Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bebearia |
| Species: | B. mandinga |
| Binomial name | |
| Bebearia mandinga | |
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Bebearia mandinga, the Mandinga forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. [2] The habitat consists of forests.
E. mandinga Fldr. (41 d) differs [from other Bebearia] beneath in both sexes in the yellow-grey or whitish grey basal half of both wings, which is chequered with large, angular black-grey spots; the dark spots are placed chiefly in the basal part of cellules 1—6. In the male the wings are bright orange above, somewhat darker than in Bebearia zonara and with the dark spots somewhat larger but still free. The female exactly agrees with that of zonara above. Senegal to Congo. [3]
The larvae feed on Hypselodelphys species, including H. scandens .
