Bicyclus campina ocelligera (Strand, 1910)

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 campina ocelligera (Strand, 1910)

Larsen 1996: pl. 29, fig. 410 ii – iv. d ’ Abrera 1997: 207 (1 fig.). SI: Figure 8e – h.

Forewing length: male 21 – 24.5 mm [mean (n = 10) 22.44 mm, SD = 0.646]; female 24 – 26.5 mm [mean (n = 3) 25.27 mm, SD = 0.252].

Note: in line with general lepidopterological practice, the original orthographies campina and ocelligera are maintained here rather than altered to ‘ agree ’ with the supposed masculine gender of Bicyclus . As noted by Condamin (1973, p. 144), specimens from Kilimanjaro and the Taita Hills ( Kenya) are intermediate in phenotype between nominotypical ocelligera (type locality Amani) and subspecies carcassoni Condamin, 1963 (type locality Mt Kenya).

Records

Tanzania (coast and northeastern highlands), including Mt Meru, Mt Kilimanjaro, Usambaras, Udzungwa Range, Nguru and Uluguru Mountains, in forests at altitudes up to 2000 m, with intermediates to ssp. carcassoni in eastern and northern Tanzania ( Kielland 1990, p. 79, as B. campinus ocelligerus ). The ABRI collection (Nairobi) has several specimens from Lukani, southern Kilimanjaro, collected at about 2000 m (D.C. Lees, pers. comm.). Five males and two females in OUMNH were collected by Rogers on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, January 1906. Material in BMNH includes three males and one female from Moshi, vii.1920, collected by W.N. van Someren, and one male labelled ‘ Slopes of Kilimanjaro 3 – 8000 ft, iii.1885 ’, collected by Hannington. Although not encountered at 2000 m or above by Liseki (2009), B. c. ocelligera is included here as a member of the protected area fauna, but presumably limited to the lowest zones of the forest, as according to Aurivillius (1911b, p. 94, as Mycalesis campina subapicalis Aurivillius, 1910 – treated as a junior subjective synonym of ocelligera) it is found ‘ on Mt Kilimanjaro on shady foot-paths in the woods up to 2000 m. ’ Beyond Tanzania this subspecies occurs in coastal areas of Kenya. Subspecies carcassoni is found in highland forests in Kenya and the Taita Hills. The only other subspecies, nominotypical B. campina (Aurivillius, 1901) , ranges from southern Tanzania into the DRC, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique ( Condamin 1973, p. 146; Ackery et al. 1995, p. 288).