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Bebearia phantasina
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Bebearia phantasina

Bebearia phantasina, the western fantasia, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria. The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.

In phantasina Stgr. (41 a), from Sierra Leone and North Guinea to Lagos, the subapical band of the forewing is much narrower [than in Bebearia phantasiella ], only 1—2 mm. in breadth, and the distal area on the underside of the fore wing is only a little darker than the basal part, but proximally curved.

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