Bicyclus xeneas

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Bicyclus

Bicyclus xeneas, the Stately Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The habitat consists of forests.

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Bicyclus xeneas xeneas (Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Bicyclus xeneas occidentalis Condamin, 1965 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, western and southern Nigeria)

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