Bebearia laetitia

Bebearia laetitia
Bebearia laetitia depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. laetitia
Binomial name
Bebearia laetitia (Plötz, 1880)[1]
Synonyms
Bebearia Euryphene laetitia Plötz, 1880 Bebearia (Bebearia) laetitia Euryphene laetitia tia Suffert, 1904

Bebearia laetitia, Laetitia’s Forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.^[2] The habitat consists of wetter forests.

Subspecies

• Bebearia laetitia laetitia (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo: Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur and Lualaba)
• Bebearia laetitia vesta Hecq, 1989 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo: Sankuru)

References

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