Dark palm forester | |
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Nominate morph female Kakum National Park, Ghana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bebearia |
Species: | B. mardania
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Binomial name | |
Bebearia mardania | |
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Bebearia mardania, the dark palm forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Phoenix reclinata, Hyphaene thebaica the Borassus palm and the coconut palm.
References
[edit]- ^ "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
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