Bebearia ashantina

Bebearia ashantina, the Ashanti forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast and Ghana. The habitat consists of forests.

Male Forewing black, more or less sprinkled with blue or greenish scales below the costa; cell crossed by two blue or greenish-blue bars followed by an indistinct blue or purplish one beyond the discocellulars : a subapical well defined ochreous bar from vein 7 nearly reaching vein 4, widening below the middle of interspace 5 and bearing a black spot upon it below vein 5; a subtriangular steel-blue or greenish patch having one side extending along the inner margin from one quarter distance from the base to about 3 mm. from the outer margin, and the apex reaching to vein 5 where it is suffused into the subapical ochreous bar; the bases of all the interspaces black; indistinct blackish marks on the blue or greenish area between the veins — an oval one in interspace 3 and strigiform ones in 2 and 6; a suffused blackish border to the outer margin about 3 mm. in width and a quadrate white apical spot. Hindwing with the base and outer margin black, the latter about 3 mm. in width and inwardly suffused with indigo-blue, broadest towards the apex; disc of wing steel-blue or greenish with a whitish or ochreous patch in interspaces 3 — 6 crossed by blue or greenish lines of scales between the veins; cell with two round black spots in the middle, the upper the larger, and a divided black mark on the upper part of the discocellulars.