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Bebearia comus
Bebearia comus, the broad-banded forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria and Cameroon and from Equatorial Guinea to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests.
E. comus Ward (40 e) has the ground-colour of the upperside uniform dark velvety brown and only in the cell of the forewing and at the proximal side of the oblique band some indistinct black lines. The forewing is dark brown beneath, in the middle more or less yellowish with violet-grey transverse spots in the cell and at the costal margin and a whitish apical spot; the underside of the hindwing has besides the median band 4
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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 891921.