Bematistes consanguinea

Bematistes consanguinea

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bematistes
Species:	B. consanguinea
Binomial name
*Bematistes consanguinea* (Aurivillius, 1893)^[1]
Synonyms
Acraea consanguinea (Aurivillius, 1893) Planema consanguinea Aurivillius, 1893 Acraea (Acraea) consanguinea Planema consanguinea f. inaequalis Le Doux, 1931 Planema albicolor Karsch, 1895 Planema arenaria Sharpe, 1902 Planema consanguinea albicolor f. flava Le Doux, 1931 Planema consanguinea var. intermedia Aurivillius, 1899 Planema consanguinea f. conspicua Le Doux, 1937 Planema consanguinea f. peregrina Le Doux, 1937 Planema consanguinea sartina Jordan, 1910

In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana

Bematistes consanguinea, the blood-brother bematistes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Barteria nigritiana.

Subspecies

B. c. consanguinea (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon)
B. c. albicolor (Karsch, 1895) (south-eastern Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
B. c. intermedia (Aurivillius, 1899) (Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia)
B. c. sartina (Jordan, 1910) (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)

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