Anal-patch bush brown | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bicyclus |
Species: | B. analis
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Binomial name | |
Bicyclus analis (
Aurivillius, 1895)
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Synonyms | |
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Bicyclus analis, the anal-patch bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda. [2]
B. analis has a yellowish grey under surface with almost smooth or slightly undulate transverse lines; the hindwing beneath with distinct eye-spots in cellule 3 and the forewing also above with two light-pupilled eye-spots in cellules 2 and 5. male: wings above dark brown, the hindwing at the anal angle with a black velvety spot with grey reflection, divided by vein I b and in the basal part of cellule 1 c long-haired,beneath with 7 distinct eye-spots with yellow, brown and whitish rings, two in cellule 1 c and one each in cellules 2 — 6, the spot in cellule 2 somewhat larger than the others; the eye-spots are placed in an almost uniformly curved row. The female without white transverse band on the forewing. Cameroons and Congo district. [3]
Anal-patch bush brown | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bicyclus |
Species: | B. analis
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Binomial name | |
Bicyclus analis (
Aurivillius, 1895)
[1]
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Synonyms | |
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Bicyclus analis, the anal-patch bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda. [2]
B. analis has a yellowish grey under surface with almost smooth or slightly undulate transverse lines; the hindwing beneath with distinct eye-spots in cellule 3 and the forewing also above with two light-pupilled eye-spots in cellules 2 and 5. male: wings above dark brown, the hindwing at the anal angle with a black velvety spot with grey reflection, divided by vein I b and in the basal part of cellule 1 c long-haired,beneath with 7 distinct eye-spots with yellow, brown and whitish rings, two in cellule 1 c and one each in cellules 2 — 6, the spot in cellule 2 somewhat larger than the others; the eye-spots are placed in an almost uniformly curved row. The female without white transverse band on the forewing. Cameroons and Congo district. [3]