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Bebearia sophus subsp. phreone Feisthamel 1850
Description
176. Bebearia sophus phreone (Feisthamel, 1850)
WL: 31mm. B. sophus is a forest species. Two subspecies are recognized: B. s. phreone from Casamanse (Senegal), Guinea-Bissau and Guinea, and the nominate subspecies from Sierra Leone to Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo and DRC. The caterpillars feed on Landolphia (Apocynaceae) and on Chrysophyllum (Sapotaceae).
Studied material. Bafatá: Gafati, woodland, 16.02.2013, 1♀ (SV) (CZ 000011015). Gabú: Pataque, 1♀ (JG 22) (CZ 5899).
Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Gabú, Quinara, Tombali. Authors: Bacelar (1949), Larsen (2005), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2008).
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 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2013-02-16
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-02-16
- Scientific name authorship
- Feisthamel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Bebearia
- Species
- phreone
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bebearia sophus subsp. phreone Feisthamel, 1850 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Feisthamel, J. F. P. (1850) Description de quelques lepidopteres rhopaloceres nouveaux ou peu connus, provenant de la Cazamance (Afrique). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 8, 247 - 262.
- Bacelar, A. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.