Bicyclus dorothea, the light bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Central African Republic, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of disturbed areas and clearings in forests.
| Light bush brown | |
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| In Ghana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Bicyclus |
| Species: | B. dorothea
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| Binomial name | |
| Bicyclus dorothea | |
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The larvae feed on Paspalum conjugatum, Paspalum polystachium and Axonopus compressus.
Subspecies
edit- Bicyclus dorothea dorothea (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Bicyclus dorothea concolor Condamin & Fox, 1964 (Equatorial Guinea: Bioko, São Tomé and Príncipe: São Tomé)
References
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- ^ "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-15.