Bicyclus aurivillii

Bicyclus aurivillii
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. aurivillii
Binomial name
Bicyclus aurivillii (Butler, 1896) [1]
Synonyms
Mycalesis aurivilliiButler, 1896 Mycalesis aurivillii kivuensisJoicey & Talbot, 1924 Mycalesis aurivillii var. birungaeAurivillius, 1925

Bicyclus aurivillii is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. ^[2]

Description

M. aurivillii Btlr. is similar to the preceding species [ M. saussurei Dew.], but differs in having the basal part of the wings above blackish, in the forewing having only small white spots in cellules 3 and 4 and only blind,indistinct eye-spots and the hindwing having only a rather large white spot between veins 3 and 6, but no eye-spots; the eye-spots on the under surface almost exactly as in saussurei; the species is larger than saussurei and has the fringes chequered with white and brown, on the hindwing strongly undulate. In the female the hindwing has only one hair-pencil, the pencil in cellule 6 being absent. German East Africa; Ruanda and Ruwenzori. ^[3]

Subspecies

• Bicyclus aurivillii aurivillii (border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda)
• Bicyclus aurivillii kivuensis(Joicey & Talbot, 1924) (north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi)

References

1. "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
3. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, 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 .