Bicyclus evadne
| Bicyclus evadne | |
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| Male | |
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| Female both B. e. elionas, Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bicyclus |
| Species: | B. evadne |
| Binomial name | |
| Bicyclus evadne (Cramer, 1779) | |
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Bicyclus evadne, the small stately bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests.
Subspecies
- Bicyclus evadne evadne (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, western Ivory Coast)
- Bicyclus evadne elionias (Hewitson, 1866) (eastern Ivory Coast, Ghana, eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Torben Larsen developed a species numbering system for his 2005 publication Butterflies of West Africa. The subspecies elionias is #665. The 'Larsen' numbers have since been used with permission in A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana.
References
- ↑ "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-43-9.
- ↑ Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. p. 80. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.
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Data related to Bicyclus evadne at Wikispecies
