Bicyclus anynana anynana (Butler, 1879)

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 865-904 : 875

Bicyclus anynana anynana (Butler, 1879)

Larsen 1996: pl. 29, fig. 419 i,ii. d ’ Abrera 1997: 217 (2 figs). SI: Figure 8a – d.

Forewing length: male 18.5 – 21 mm [mean (n = 6) 19.90 mm, SD = 0.310]; female 21 – 25.5 mm [mean (n = 6) 23.27 mm, SD = 1.015].

Records

Kielland (1990, p. 79) states that this butterfly is common in woodlands and forests from sea level up to 2000 m in all parts of Tanzania. Recorded by Cordeiro (1990, p. 29) from Lake Manyara National Park, where it was ‘ very common ’. Included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna on the basis of one male labelled ‘ Kilimanjaro ’, without further data or provenance, ex Rothschild Collection (BMNH), and Condamin ’ s (1973, p. 295, fig. 384) distribution map, which has a spot centred on southern Kilimanjaro. The nominate subspecies occurs in eastern Africa south from Kenya to the Transvaal and Natal, and the Comoro Islands. There are two further subspecies recognized, one from Uganda to northern Angola, the second on Socotra ( Condamin 1973; Ackery et al. 1995, p. 288).