Bebearia phantasina

Bebearia phantasina
Bebearia phantasina depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bebearia
Species:	B. phantasina
Binomial name
Bebearia phantasina (Staudinger, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
Euryphene phantasiella var. phantasina Staudinger, 1891 Bebearia (Bebearia) phantasina Bebearia phantasiella phantasina Bebearia ultima Hecq, 1990

Bebearia phantasina, the Western Fantasia, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria.^[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.

Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit.

Subspecies

• Bebearia phantasina phantasina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
• Bebearia phantasina ultima Hecq, 1990 (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)

References

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