''Bebearia tentyris'', or Hewitson's 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

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le ...

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

, the

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...

, the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

and

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 ...

.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
/ref> The habitat consists of forests, especially drier forests. The male may be at once known by the upperside of the forewing having along the costal margin a broad bluish green reflection, so that the ground-colour appears light green and the dark spots dark green; the greenish colour is posteriorly sharply bounded by vein 2 and distally scarcely reaches the fourth transverse band; the ground-colour of the upper surface is otherwise dark yellow-brown and the dark transverse bands conspicuous; the under surface is grey-brown and characterized by a quadrate snow-white spot before the middle of cellule 7 on the hindwing. The female is very similar to that of '' carshena'' and has like it a yellow hindmarginal spot on the forewing, but this is narrower and extends somewhat into cellule 2; the median band of the hindwing is anteriorly somewhat broader, about 6 mm. in cellule 5. Sierra Leone to Angola. — ''seeldrayersi'' Auriv. differs in having the wings in the male is entirely dark blue above with indistinct markings, but beneath they are as in the type-form, only somewhat more grey, while in the female the light yellow hindmarginal spot on the forewing is divided by a black transverse line. Is perhaps an independent species. In the interior of the Congo region. The larvae feed on '' Hypselodelphys'' species.

Subspecies

*''Bebearia tentyris tentyris'' (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon) *''Bebearia tentyris seeldrayersi'' (Aurivillius, 1899) (Congo, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidia) of Semuliki National Park, western Uganda. Metamorphosis, 29: 14-21.

References

Butterflies described in 1866 tentyris Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Limenitidinae-stub