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Bematistes quadricolor

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bematistes

Bematistes quadricolor

Bematistes quadricolor is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of montane forests.

The larvae feed on Adenia cissampeloides, Vitis and Passiflora species

Subspecies

  • B. q. quadricolor (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • B. q. itumbana (Jordan, 1910) (eastern Tanzania)
  • B. q. latifasciata (Sharpe, 1892) (western Uganda, Burundi, Kenya: west of the Rift Valley, north-western Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ituri and Kivu)
  • B. q. leptis (Jordan, 1910) (Kenya: east of the Rift Valley, north-eastern Tanzania)
  • B. q. mahale Kielland, 1990 (western Tanzania)
  • B. q. morogoro Carpenter & Jackson, 1950 (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • B. q. uluguru Kielland, 1990 (eastern Tanzania)

    • References

    Bematistes quadricolor Wikipedia
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