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Bicyclus saussurei

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bicyclus

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Bicyclus saussurei, the White-banded Bush Brown or Saussure’s Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of dense sub-montane forests.

The larvae feed on Poaceae species.

Subspecies

  • Bicyclus saussurei saussurei (highlands of Angola, southern and central Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia)
  • Bicyclus saussurei angustus Condamin, 1970 (Democratic Republic of Congo: Kivu, southern Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
  • Bicyclus saussurei camerunia (Strand, 1914) (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon)

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