Bicyclus istaris

Velvet bush brown
	In Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. istaris
Binomial name
	Bicyclus istaris; (Plötz, 1880)
Synonyms
	Mycalesis istaris Plötz, 1880 ; Mycalesis rhanidostroma Karsch, 1893 ; Monotrichtis sophrosyne brunnea Jackson, 1951 ;

Bicyclus istaris, the velvet bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya (west of the Rift Valley) and north-western Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of wetter forests in somewhat hilly areas.

References

^ "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-15.

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