Western fantasia | |
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In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Bebearia |
Species: | B. phantasina
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Binomial name | |
Bebearia phantasina (
Staudinger, 1891)
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Synonyms | |
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Bebearia phantasina, the western fantasia, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria. [2] The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.
Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit.