Bebearia oxione

Bebearia oxione
Male Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. oxione
Binomial name
Bebearia oxione (Hewitson, 1866) [1]
Synonyms
Euryphene oxioneHewitson, 1866 Bebearia (Apectinaria) oxione Euryphene oxione squalidaTalbot, 1928

Bebearia oxione, the banded forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. ^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

E. oxione Hew. (41c) is distinguished by the black-brown, nearly straight and very distinct transverse band on the under surface; this extends from the apex of the forewing to the middle of the inner margin of the hindwing and is somewhat more sharply expressed on the hindwing than on the forewing. In the male the ground-colour of the upper surface is dark yellow-brown, and the dark transverse bands are broad and continuous. The female is similar to the other females above [in its species group (see Bebearia genus)], but has the apex of the forewing very acute. Old Calabar to Angola and Toro. ^[3]

Adults are attracted to fallen fruit.

The larvae feed on Marantochloa species, including M. purpurea .

Subspecies

• Bebearia oxione oxione (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria)
• Bebearia oxione squalida(Talbot, 1928) (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

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 .