Bematistes umbra

Bematistes umbra
Illustration by Dru Drury
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bematistes
Species:	B. umbra
Binomial name
Bematistes umbra (Drury, [1782])
Synonyms
Papilio umbra Drury, 1782 Acraea umbra (Drury, 1782) Acraea (Acraea) umbra Planema umbra carpenteri le Doux, 1937 Planema macaria hemileuca Jordan, 1914 Planema macarioides Aurivillius, 1893 Planema umbra rabuma Suffert, 1904

Bematistes umbra, the clouded bematistes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Adenia cisampelloides.

Subspecies

• B. u. umbra (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
• B. u. carpenteri (Le Doux, 1937) (Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)
• B. u. hemileuca (Jordan, 1914) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya: west to the Kakamega Forest)
• B. u. macarioides (Aurivillius, 1893) (Cameroon, Gabon, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, north-western Tanzania, Zambia)

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 57 f ssp. macarioides
• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 58 e ssp. macarioides f umbra
• Images representing Acraea umbra at Bold
• Images representing Acraea umbra macarioides at Bold