Bebearia phantasina

Western fantasia
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. phantasina
Binomial name
Bebearia phantasina (Staudinger, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
Euryphene phantasiella var. phantasinaStaudinger, 1891 Bebearia (Bebearia) phantasina Bebearia phantasiella phantasina Bebearia ultimaHecq, 1990

Bebearia phantasina, the western fantasia, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria. ^[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.

In phantasina Stgr. (41 a), from Sierra Leone and North Guinea to Lagos, the subapical band of the forewing is much narrower [than in Bebearia phantasiella ], only 1—2 mm. in breadth, and the distal area on the underside of the fore wing is only a little darker than the basal part, but proximally curved. ^[3]

Subspecies

Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit.

Subspecies

• Bebearia phantasina phantasina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
• Bebearia phantasina ultimaHecq, 1990 (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)

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 .