Bicyclus mandanes

Large marbled bush brown
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. mandanes
Binomial name
	Bicyclus mandanes; Hewitson, 1873
Synonyms
	Dichothyris graphidhabra Karsch, 1893;

Bicyclus mandanes, the large marbled bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of wet and dry forests.

Adults feed on fallen fruit and carnivore scats.

Torben Larsen developed a species numbering system for his 2005 publication Butterflies of West Africa. This species is #695. 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. 83. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.

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[funet-1] "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-43-9.

[3] Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. p. 83. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.