Bebearia maximiana

Bebearia maximiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. maximiana
Binomial name
Bebearia maximiana (Staudinger, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
Euryphene maximianaStaudinger, 1891 Bebearia (Bebearia) maximiana Euryphene aurora f. eosRöber, 1936 Euryphene maximinianaHolland, 1920

Bebearia maximiana, the maximal forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Seitz- E. maximiana Stgr. is a very similar [to] Bebearia flaminia , but somewhat larger species, of which a few specimens were captured by Dr. Preuss at the Barombi Station in the Cameroons and which is very little known as yet. ^[3]

The larvae feed on an unidentified dicotyledonous tree.

Subspecies

• Bebearia maximiana maximiana (Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, northern Kivu and Lualaba)
• Bebearia maximiana ataHecq, 1990 (Gabon)

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 .