Bebearia absolon

Bebearia absolon
	Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. absolon
Binomial name
	Bebearia absolon; (Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
	Papilio absolon Fabricius, 1793; Bebearia (Apectinaria) absolon; Euryphene candida Capronnier, 1889; Euryphene entebbiae Lathy, 1906;

Bebearia absolon, the Absolon forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Both wings in the male with yellow-brown ground-colour above and continuous or nearly continuous dark transverse bands, beneath with yellow-grey or grey-brown ground-colour without large blackish markings and without dark oblique line in the apex of the forewing. The female above very similar to that of zonara, but beneath without dark oblique line in the apex of the forewing.

absolon F. (41 d, f). Wings above in the without blue reflection. Cameroons to the Congo.
micans Auriv. The wings of the male when viewed obliquely from the side, have a bright blue reflection above and are somewhat darker on both surfaces than in the type-form. Cameroons and Congo. Treated as a species Bebearia micans by Hecq.
entebbiae Lathy is somewhat larger and even darker than micans, but seems otherwise entirely to agree with it; it is not mentioned whether the wings have a blue reflection above or not. Uganda.

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The larvae feed on Trachyphrynium and Hypselodelphys species.

Subspecies

Bebearia absolon absolon (eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, northern Kivu, Tshopo, Tshuapa, Equateur, Kinshasa, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba)
Bebearia absolon entebbiae (Lathy, 1906) (Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

Male, Mbalmayo, Cameroon
Female, Mbalmayo, Cameroon

References

^ "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
^ 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.

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[funet-1] "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-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.

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