Bematistes consanguinea

Bematistes consanguinea, the blood-brother bematistes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Bematistes consanguinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bematistes
Species:
B. consanguinea
Binomial name
Bematistes consanguinea
Synonyms
  • Acraea consanguinea (Aurivillius, 1893)
  • Planema consanguinea Aurivillius, 1893
  • Acraea (Acraea) consanguinea
  • Planema consanguinea f. inaequalis Le Doux, 1931
  • Planema albicolor Karsch, 1895
  • Planema arenaria Sharpe, 1902
  • Planema consanguinea albicolor f. flava Le Doux, 1931
  • Planema consanguinea var. intermedia Aurivillius, 1899
  • Planema consanguinea f. conspicua Le Doux, 1937
  • Planema consanguinea f. peregrina Le Doux, 1937
  • Planema consanguinea sartina Jordan, 1910
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana

The larvae feed on Barteria nigritiana.

Subspecies
  • B. c. consanguinea (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon)
  • B. c. albicolor (Karsch, 1895) (south-eastern Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • B. c. intermedia (Aurivillius, 1899) (Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia)
  • B. c. sartina (Jordan, 1910) (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)

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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