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Bebearia cocalia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bebearia

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Bebearia sophus, Bebearia mardania, Bebearia cutteri, Bebearia absolon, Bebearia laetitia

Bebearia cocalia, the Common Palm Forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests, particularly riparian forests.

Adults are attracted to fermented bananas.

The larvae feed on palm trees.

Subspecies

  • Bebearia cocalia cocalia (south-western Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
  • Bebearia cocalia badiana (Rebel, 1914) (Democratic Republic of Congo: Kivu, western Uganda, north-western Tanzania, western and central Kenya)
  • Bebearia cocalia continentalis Hecq, 1988 (Ghana: the Volta region, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • Bebearia cocalia katera (van Someren, 1939) (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, western Uganda, western Tanzania, western Zambia)

    • References

    Bebearia cocalia Wikipedia
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