Bicyclus campina

Chirinda bush brown
B. c. campina in Chirinda Forest
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bicyclus
Species: B. campina
Binomial name
Bicyclus campina
Synonyms
  • Mycalesis campina Aurivillius, 1901
  • Mycalesis campina var. goetzi Thurau, 1903
  • Mycalesis fuelleborni Bartel, 1905
  • Mycalesis fuelleborni f. ocelligera Strand, 1910
  • Mycalesis campina var. subapicalis Aurivillius, 1910

Bicyclus campina, the Chirinda bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of dense savanna and open forests.

Adults are on wing year round. There are well-defined seasonal forms.

The larvae feed on Poaceae species.

Subspecies

  • Bicyclus campina campina (Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe)
  • Bicyclus campina carcassoni Condamin, 1963 (central Kenya)
  • Bicyclus campina ocelligera (Strand, 1910) (coast of Kenya, the coast and north-eastern of highlands Tanzania)

References

  1. ↑ "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina


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