Bebearia senegalensis


Bebearia senegalensis, the Senegal palm forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, northern Guinea, northern Sierra Leone and northern Ivory Coast. The habitat consists of dry forests and Guinea savanna.
E. senegalensis H.-Schaff. is very similar to mardania, but differs in the narrower subapical band of the forewing and in the female also in the darker, dirty grey-brown or yellowish brown, ground colour of the upper surface. Senegal and Sierra Leone. -— orientis Karsch has the ground-colour in both sexes orange, at the base yellow-brown, and bears a broader subapical band on the forewing. German East Africa.
The larvae feed on Raphia palma-pinus.

Taxonomy

It is a part of the Bebearia mardania species complex