Bicyclus hewitsonii

Bicyclus hewitsonii, the large blue-banded bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of dense primary forests.

Bicyclus hewitsonii
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana under various names
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. hewitsonii
Binomial name
Bicyclus hewitsonii (Doumet, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
Idiomorphus hewitsoni Doumet, 1861 Idiomorphus nanodes Grose-Smith, 1890 Mycalesis bicolor Bartel, 1905 Mycalesis subocellatus Bartel, 1905 Mycalesis owassae Schultze, 1914 Mycalesis nanodes nyongensis Birket-Smith, 1960 Bicyclus hewitsoni

Adults are often found feeding from fallen fruit.

References

1. "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 26