Bicyclus sambulos

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| name= Tailed bush brown

| image = Tailed bush brown (Bicyclus sambulos unicolor) underside Nyamebe Bepo.jpg

| image_caption = Bicyclus sambulos unicolor, Ghana

| image2 = Bicyclus sambulos1.JPG

| taxon = Bicyclus sambulos

| authority = (Hewitson, 1877)[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

| synonyms = *Mycalesis sambulos Hewitson, 1877

}}

Bicyclus sambulos, the tailed bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.{{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 dense primary forests.

Adults are attracted to fermented bananas and sap oozing from trees.