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Bicyclus sambulos

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bicyclus

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Bicyclus sambulos, the Tailed Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. The habitat consists of dense primary forests.

Adults are attracted to fermented bananas and sap oozing from trees.

Subspecies

  • Bicyclus sambulos sambulos (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, westwern Tanzania)
  • Bicyclus sambulos cyaneus Condamin, 1961 (Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • Bicyclus sambulos unicolor Condamin, 1971 (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)

    • References

    Bicyclus sambulos Wikipedia
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