Bicyclus mandanes

Bicyclus mandanes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bicyclus
Species: B. mandanes
Binomial name
Bicyclus mandanes
Hewitson, 1873[1]
Synonyms
  • Dichothyris graphidhabra Karsch, 1893

Bicyclus mandanes, the Large Marbled Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of wet and dry forests.

Adults feed on fallen fruit and carnivore scats.

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