Bicyclus madetes
Species of butterfly
Brown-spot bush brown | |
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B. m. madetes Ghana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bicyclus |
Species: | B. madetes |
Binomial name | |
Bicyclus madetes (Hewitson, 1874)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Bicyclus madetes, the brown-spot bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests, including severely degraded forests.
The larvae feed on Poaceae species.
Subspecies
- Bicyclus madetes madetes (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, western Cameroon, Gabon)
- Bicyclus madetes carola d'Abrera, 1980 (Cameroon: west of the mountains, Democratic Republic of the Congo: the Kasai)
Variations in spot patterns
B. m. madetes in Ghana
References
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