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Bicyclus safitza subsp. safitza Westwood 1850
Description
120. Bicyclus safitza safitza (Westwood, 1850)
WL: 24mm. This is a common butterfly of the Guinea savanna. It occurs throughout most of Africa excluding very dry areas and the Cape Province. Subspecies B. s. aethiops occurs in Ethiopia. Known host-plants are species of Ehrharta, Paspalum, Schizachyrium and Oplismenus (Poaceae).
Studied material. Cacheu: Banhinda (PNTC), 27.07.2009, 1♀ (BS 28998). Caió, 3 specimens (JB).
Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Biombo, Bolama, Oio, Quinara. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1949), Larsen (2005), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2008a).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.
Notes
Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PNTC
- Event date
- 2009-07-27
- Verbatim event date
- 2009-07-27
- Scientific name authorship
- Westwood
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Bicyclus
- Species
- safitza
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bicyclus safitza subsp. safitza Westwood, 1850 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Aurivillius, C. (1910) Schmetterlinge gesammelt in Westafrika von Leonardo Fea in dem Jahren 1897 - 1902. Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale da Genova, 44, 502 - 506.
- Bacelar, A. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.