Bicyclus madetes

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Bicyclus
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Bicyclus madetes, the Brown-spot Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The habitat consists of forests, including severely degraded forests.

The larvae feed on Poaceae species.

Subspecies

Bicyclus madetes madetes (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, western Cameroon, Gabon)

Bicyclus madetes carola d'Abrera, 1980 (Cameroon: west of the mountains, Democratic Republic of Congo: the Kasai)

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