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Bebearia abesa
Bebearia abesa, the black 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
E. abesa Hew. (41 d, e) differs from all the other species of this group in the underside of the hindwing having three deep black dots in the cell instead of a dot and two rings. In the male the wings are very dark velvety black-brown above; on this dark ground-colour the black transverse markings only show indistinctly.
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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 947239.