shining blue forester

Bebearia carshena, the shining blue forester, 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, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ubangi, Uele, north Kivu, Tshopo, Equateur and Lualaba), western Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of dense forests.

The males of this species differs from the others at once in having the wings blackish above and the dark transverse bands consequently indistinct or absent; on the forewing distinct black streaks or spots are present only in the cell, at the middle of the costal margin and near the base of cellules 2 and 3; on the hindwing there is a large black spot just beyond the apex of the cell in cellules 4—6; the forewing, however, is bright greenish blue from the base to beyond the middle and the hindwing in