Bicyclus madetes

Brown-spot bush brown
	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)
Synonyms
	Mycalesis madetes Hewitson, 1874 ; Mycalesis nuwa Plötz, 1880 ; Mycalesis erysichton Ehrmann, 1894 ;

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)