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Absolon forester
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Absolon forester

Bebearia absolon

Bebearia absolon, the Absolon forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

Both wings in the male with yellow-brown ground-colour above and continuous or nearly continuous dark transverse bands, beneath with yellow-grey or grey-brown ground-colour without large blackish markings and without dark oblique line in the apex of the forewing. The female above very similar to that of zonara, but beneath without dark oblique line in the apex of the forewing.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 877090.