Bebearia laetitia

Bebearia laetitia
Bebearia laetitia female

Mbalmayo, Cameroon

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bebearia
Species: B. laetitia
Binomial name
Bebearia laetitia
(Plötz, 1880)[1]
Synonyms
  • Bebearia Euryphene laetitia Plötz, 1880
  • Bebearia (Bebearia) laetitia
  • Euryphene laetitia tia Suffert, 1904

Bebearia laetitia, Laetitia’s Forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of wetter forests.

Subspecies

Bebearia laetitia depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bebearia laetitia.
Wikispecies has information related to: Bebearia laetitia


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/24/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.