Bebearia innocua, the innocuous forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria and Cameroon.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini Their habitat consists of forests.
E. innocua Sm.& Kirby is similar to the of cutteri, but the upper surface is lighter, with black-brown ground-colour and hence with the dark transverse bands or transverse rows of spots standing out rather distinctly; the hindwing is bluish green from the base to beyond the middle, with some black spots in and behind the cell; the forewing at the base and hindmargin only indistinctly greenish; the under surface in the basal part bluish green with black spots, in the distal part blackish brown and at the inner margin of the hindwing yellowish; the black discal spots absent or very indistinct; the submarginal line is placed close to the distal margin, but is fine and very indistinct. Lagos to Cameroons.Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 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.
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