Bicyclus madetes

Bicyclus madetes
	B. m. madetes; Ghana
Scientific classification
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)

B. m. madetes in Ghana

^ "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-15.

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Bicyclus madetes

B. m. madetes Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. madetes
Binomial name
*Bicyclus madetes* (Hewitson, 1874)^[1]
Synonyms
Mycalesis madetes Hewitson, 1874 Mycalesis nuwa Plötz, 1880 Mycalesis erysichton Ehrmann, 1894