Bebearia senegalensis

Bebearia senegalensis
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. senegalensis
Binomial name
Bebearia senegalensis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1858) [1]
Synonyms
Euryphene senegalensisHerrich-Schaeffer, 1858 Bebearia (Apectinaria) senegalensis Bebearia cocalia senegalensis

Bebearia senegalensis, the Senegal palm forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, northern Guinea, northern Sierra Leone and northern Ivory Coast. ^[2] The habitat consists of dry forests and Guinea savanna.

E. senegalensis H.-Schaff. (40 d) is very similar to mardania , but differs in the narrower subapical band of the forewing and in the female also in the darker, dirty grey-brown or yellowish brown, ground colour of the upper surface. Senegal and Sierra Leone. -— orientis Karsch [now species] (40 d) has the ground-colour in both sexes orange, at the base yellow-brown, and bears a broader subapical band on the forewing. German East Africa. ^[3]

The larvae feed on Raphia palma-pinus .

Taxonomy

It is a part of the Bebearia mardania species complex ^[4]

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 .
4. W. N. Holmes, 2001 A reappraisal of the Bebearia mardania complex (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) June 2001 Tropical Zoology 14(1):31-62 DOI:10.1080/03946975.2001.10531142