Light bush brown | |
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In Ghana | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bicyclus |
Species: | B. dorothea
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Binomial name | |
Bicyclus dorothea | |
Synonyms | |
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Bicyclus dorothea, the light bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Central African Republic, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] The habitat consists of disturbed areas and clearings in forests.
The larvae feed on Paspalum conjugatum, Paspalum polystachium and Axonopus compressus.