Bebearia makala
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bebearia |
| Species: | B. makala
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| Binomial name | |
| Bebearia makala (Bethune-Baker, 1908)[1]
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Bebearia makala is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.[2]
E. makala Baker agrees with Bebearia luteola, except that the narrow oblique band of the male forewing has developed into a broad subapical patch extending to beyond vein 3. The under surface of both wings brownish olive-green with the markings of the upper surface showing through; in the cell four dark-ringed spots and beyond the middle traces of two dark transverse bands and of the submarginal line ; the hind¬ wing with three sharply outlined black dots in the cell and with indistinct traces of a median band and a submarginal line. Expanse 89 mm. Makala, Congo region[3]
Subspecies
[edit]- Bebearia makala makala (northern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic)
- Bebearia makala bosmansi Hecq, 1989 (Cameroon)
References
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- ^ "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.
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