Bicyclus xeneas

Bicyclus xeneas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. xeneas
Binomial name
Bicyclus xeneas (Hewitson, 1866)[1]
Synonyms
Mycalesis xeneas Hewitson, 1866 Mycalesis phalanthus Staudinger, 1887 Mycalesis phalanthus var. phalanthoides Strand, 1913

Bicyclus xeneas, the Stately Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

• Bicyclus xeneas xeneas (Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Bicyclus xeneas occidentalis Condamin, 1965 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, western and southern Nigeria)

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