Bicyclus madetes

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Bicyclus madetes
Brown-spot bush brown (Bicyclus madetes madetes).jpg
B. m. madetes
Ghana
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B. madetes
Binomial name
Bicyclus madetes
(Hewitson, 1874)[1]
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)

Variations in spot patterns[]

B. m. madetes in Ghana


References[]

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


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