Bematistes obliqua
Appearance
Bematistes obliqua | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bematistes |
Species: | B. obliqua
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Binomial name | |
Bematistes obliqua (Aurivillius, 1913)[1]
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Bematistes obliqua, the yellow-banded bematistes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of sub-montane forest.
This species is mimicked by a form of Pseudacraea eurytus.
The larvae feed on Adenia cisampelloides.
Subspecies
- Bematistes obliqua obliqua (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Bematistes obliqua elgonense (Poulton, 1927) (Uganda: western slopes of Mount Elgon)
- Bematistes obliqua kivuensis (Joicey & Talbot, 1927) (Uganda: west to the highlands, Democratic Republic of the Congo: east to Kivu and Ituri)
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bematistes obliqua.
Wikispecies has information related to Bematistes obliqua.
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini
External links
- Images representing Acraea obliqua at Bold
- Images representing Acraea obliqua kivuensis at Bold
- Acraea obliqua kivuensis at Pteron