Bicyclus auricruda

Bicyclus auricruda, the small marbled bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of evergreen and gallery forests.

Small marbled bush brown
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. auricruda
Binomial name
Bicyclus auricruda (Butler, 1868)^[1]
Synonyms
Mycalesis auricruda Butler, 1868 Bicyclus auricruda fulgida Fox, 1963 Mycalesis auricruda ab. parvoocellata Grünberg, 1911

Arthur Gardiner Butler's original illustration

Subspecies

• Bicyclus auricruda auricruda (Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
• Bicyclus auricruda fulgidus Fox, 1963 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, western Kenya, western Tanzania)

References

 

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1. "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. . Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-14.