Bicyclus dorothea

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| name= Light bush brown

| image = Light bush brown (Bicyclus dorothea) underside.jpg

| image_caption = In Ghana

| genus = Bicyclus

| species = dorothea

| authority = (Cramer, 1779)[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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|Papilio dorothea|Cramer, 1779

|Papilio melusina|Fabricius, 1787

|Papilio miriam|Fabricius, 1793

|Mycalesis raesaces|Hewitson, 1866

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Bicyclus dorothea, the light bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Central African Republic, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_mycalesina.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina |access-date=2012-05-15 |archive-date=2014-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222070833/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_mycalesina.doc |url-status=dead }} The habitat consists of disturbed areas and clearings in forests.

The larvae feed on Paspalum conjugatum, Paspalum polystachium and Axonopus compressus.