Bematistes umbra

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Bematistes

Bematistes umbra, the clouded bematistes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Adenia cisampelloides.

Subspecies

B. u. umbra (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)

B. u. carpenteri (Le Doux, 1937) (Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)

B. u. hemileuca (Jordan, 1914) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya: west to the Kakamega Forest)

B. u. macarioides (Aurivillius, 1893) (Cameroon, Gabon, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, north-western Tanzania, Zambia)

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