''Bebearia absolon'', the Absolon forester, is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...

. It is found in

Guinea Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea, is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to the northeast, Côte d'Ivoire to the southeast, and Sier ...

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...

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, the

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, the

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to Central African Republic–Chad border, the north, Sudan to Central African Republic–Sudan border, the northeast, South Sudan to Central ...

, the

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Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

and

Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...

.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
/ref> The habitat consists of forests. Both wings in the male with yellow-brown ground-colour above and continuous or nearly continuous dark transverse bands, beneath with yellow-grey or grey-brown ground-colour without large blackish markings and without dark oblique line in the apex of the forewing. The female above very similar to that of '' zonara'', but beneath without dark oblique line in the apex of the forewing. *''absolon'' F. (41 d, f). Wings above in the without blue reflection. Cameroons to the Congo. *''micans'' Auriv. The wings of the male when viewed obliquely from the side, have a bright blue reflection above and are somewhat darker on both surfaces than in the type-form. Cameroons and Congo. Treated as a species '' Bebearia micans'' by Hecq. *''entebbiae'' Lathy is somewhat larger and even darker than ''micans'', but seems otherwise entirely to agree with it; it is not mentioned whether the wings have a blue reflection above or not. Uganda. Aurivillius, .O.. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. The larvae feed on ''

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'' and '' Hypselodelphys'' species.

Subspecies

*''Bebearia absolon absolon'' (eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, northern Kivu, Tshopo, Tshuapa, Equateur, Kinshasa, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) *''Bebearia absolon entebbiae'' (Lathy, 1906) (Uganda, north-western Tanzania) Bebearia absolon male.jpg, Male,

Mbalmayo Mbalmayo is a town in Cameroon's Centre Province, Cameroon, Centre Region. The town had 60,091 inhabitants in 2012. It is the capital of the Nyong-et-So'o, Nyong-et-So'o Division It is located at the banks of the Nyong river between Ebolowa and ...

, Cameroon Bebearia absolon female.jpg, Female,

, Cameroon

References

Butterflies described in 1793 absolon Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius Butterflies of Africa {{Limenitidinae-stub