Bebearia octogramma
Bebearia octogramma | |
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Bebearia octogramma in Rhopalocera exotica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bebearia |
Species: | B. octogramma
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Binomial name | |
Bebearia octogramma | |
Synonyms | |
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Bebearia octogramma, the green-spotted forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of wet primary forests.
Adults feed on fallen fruit.
The larvae feed on an unidentified dicotyledonous tree.
References[]
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Wikispecies has information related to Bebearia octogramma. |
- ^ "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1889
- Bebearia
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by Henley Grose-Smith
- Taxa named by William Forsell Kirby
- Limenitidinae stubs