Bicyclus kenia

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Kenyan bush brown
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bicyclus
Species:
B. kenia
Binomial name
Bicyclus kenia
(Rogenhofer, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
  • Mycalesis keniaRogenhofer, 1891
  • Mycalesis keniax var. inocellataGaede, 1915

Bicyclus kenia, the Kenyan bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in central and south-western Kenya, northern Tanzania, Uganda (the north shore of Lake Victoria) and southern Sudan. [2] The habitat consists of montane forests.

Adults feed on fallen fruit.

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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 2012-05-15.