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Bebearia luteola

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Bebearia luteola is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Mongala, Uele, north Kivu, Tshopo and Lualaba).[2]

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Bebearia luteola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bebearia
Species:
B. luteola
Binomial name
Bebearia luteola
Synonyms
  • Euryphene luteola Bethune-Baker, 1908
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E. luteola Baker. Upper surface of both wings deep velvety blackish bronzy green; forewing beyond the cell and vein 3 somewhat lighter (yellowish) bronzy green; this lighter colour, however, reaches neither the base nor the distal margin; in the cell there are three dark spots, one at the base, one in the middle and a larger one at the apex; a yellowish oblique band between the costal margin and vein 5, terminating in cellule 4 with a yellow patch; the apex usually with a small yellow spot; an indistinct row of dark submarginal spots; on the hindwing the bronze-green colour often extends nearly to the distal margin; a trace of a dark submarginal line. Beneath both wings olive-green with all the markings of the upper surface more or less showing through: the base of the costal margin of the forewing is light bluish white to the middle of the cell; the forewing with dark, sometimes obsolete submarginal spots; the hindwing with three black spots in the cell and a white transverse spot at the middle of cellule 7; the postdiscal spots and the submarginal line dark but not sharply defined; cellules 1 a—2 more or less suffused with yellowish. Expanse 77 mm. Congo.[3]

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