Bematistes umbra

Bematistes umbra, the clouded bematistes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Bematistes umbra
Illustration by Dru Drury
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bematistes
Species:
B. umbra
Binomial name
Bematistes umbra
(Drury, [1782])[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio umbra Drury, 1782
  • Acraea umbra (Drury, 1782)
  • Acraea (Acraea) umbra
  • Planema umbra carpenteri le Doux, 1937
  • Planema macaria hemileuca Jordan, 1914
  • Planema macarioides Aurivillius, 1893
  • Planema umbra rabuma Suffert, 1904

The larvae feed on Adenia cisampelloides.

Subspecies
  • B. u. umbra (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
  • B. u. carpenteri (Le Doux, 1937) (Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)
  • B. u. hemileuca (Jordan, 1914) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya: west to the Kakamega Forest)
  • B. u. macarioides (Aurivillius, 1893) (Cameroon, Gabon, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, north-western Tanzania, Zambia)

References
  1. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.


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