Bebearia phantasina
| Western fantasia | |
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| In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bebearia |
| Species: | B. phantasina
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| Binomial name | |
| Bebearia phantasina (Staudinger, 1891)[1]
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Bebearia phantasina, the western fantasia, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.
In phantasina Stgr. (41 a), from Sierra Leone and North Guinea to Lagos, the subapical band of the forewing is much narrower [than in Bebearia phantasiella ], only 1—2 mm. in breadth, and the distal area on the underside of the fore wing is only a little darker than the basal part, but proximally curved. [3]
Subspecies
[edit]Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit.
Subspecies
[edit]- Bebearia phantasina phantasina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Bebearia phantasina ultima Hecq, 1990 (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)
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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