| Bebearia tentyris | |
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| male | |
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| female, Kakum National Park, Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bebearia |
| Species: | B. tentyris |
| Binomial name | |
| Bebearia tentyris | |
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Bebearia tentyris, or Hewitson's forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. [2] The habitat consists of forests, especially drier forests.
The male may be at once known by the upperside of the forewing having along the costal margin a broad bluish green reflection, so that the ground-colour appears light green and the dark spots dark green; the greenish colour is posteriorly sharply bounded by vein 2 and distally scarcely reaches the fourth transverse band; the ground-colour of the upper surface is otherwise dark yellow-brown and the dark transverse bands conspicuous; the under surface is grey-brown and characterized by a quadrate snow-white spot before the middle of cellule 7 on the hindwing. The female is very similar to that of carshena and has like it a yellow hindmarginal spot on the forewing, but this is narrower and extends somewhat into cellule 2; the median band of the hindwing is anteriorly somewhat broader, about 6 mm. in cellule 5. Sierra Leone to Angola. — seeldrayersi Auriv. differs in having the wings in the male is entirely dark blue above with indistinct markings, but beneath they are as in the type-form, only somewhat more grey, while in the female the light yellow hindmarginal spot on the forewing is divided by a black transverse line. Is perhaps an independent species. In the interior of the Congo region. [3]
The larvae feed on Hypselodelphys species.
