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Bicyclus sandace

Comprehensive Description

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Bicyclus sandace (Hewitson)
Mycalesis sandace Hewitson, 1876 [1852-1876], 5: [59]; pi. [32], fig. 65 (Fernando Po).
This species is found from Senegal to Abyssinia and throughout tropical Africa. It prefers open woods, secondary bush and agricultural lands. I found it rather uncommon in the interior and absent from primary forest. Condamin (1963b) records three males from the Nimba country.
Liberia: Harbel, 3 8,1, 1 8,11,1 8 , V, 1 8 , VIII, 3 8 , IX, 3 2 ,
X, 2 8 , 1 2 , XI, 1 8 , XII; Fish Lake, 4 3,1; Ganta, 1 8 , III, 2 8 , VI, 1 8 , VII; Bomi Hills, 1 8 , IV (Fox); no data, 1 8 (Naysmith);
Glofake, Ziabli, 3 6 , III, IV (Condamin, 1951); Buttikofer (1890); Sharpe (1906).
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bibliographic citation
Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA