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Bicyclus aurivillii

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| image = PZSL 1895 Butler figure 2.jpg

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| taxon = Bicyclus aurivillii

| authority = (Butler, 1896)[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/bicyclus/ "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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  • Mycalesis aurivillii Butler, 1896
  • Mycalesis aurivillii kivuensis Joicey & Talbot, 1924
  • Mycalesis aurivillii var. birungae Aurivillius, 1925

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Bicyclus aurivillii is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_mycalesina.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina |access-date=2012-05-14 |archive-date=2014-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222070833/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_mycalesina.doc |url-status=dead }}

Description

M. aurivillii Btlr. is similar to the preceding species [M. saussurei Dew.], but differs in having the basal part of the wings above blackish, in the forewing having only small white spots in cellules 3 and 4 and only blind,indistinct eye-spots and the hindwing having only a rather large white spot between veins 3 and 6, but no eye-spots; the eye-spots on the under surface almost exactly as in saussurei; the species is larger than saussurei and has the fringes chequered with white and brown, on the hindwing strongly undulate. In the female the hindwing has only one hair-pencil, the pencil in cellule 6 being absent. German East Africa;

Ruanda and Ruwenzori.Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).

Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.{{PD-notice}}

Subspecies

  • Bicyclus aurivillii aurivillii (border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda)
  • Bicyclus aurivillii kivuensis (Joicey & Talbot, 1924) (north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi)

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Category:Elymniini

Category:Butterflies described in 1896

Category:Butterflies of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler

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