Bebearia senegalensis, the Senegal palm forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, northern Guinea, northern Sierra Leone and northern Ivory Coast.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini The habitat consists of dry forests and Guinea savanna.
E. senegalensis H.-Schaff. (40 d) is very similar to mardania, but differs in the narrower subapical band of the forewing and in the female also in the darker, dirty grey-brown or yellowish brown, ground colour of the upper surface. Senegal and Sierra Leone. -— orientis Karsch [now species] (40 d) has the ground-colour in both sexes orange, at the base yellow-brown, and bears a broader subapical band on the forewing. German East Africa.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.
The larvae feed on Raphia palma-pinus.
Taxonomy It is a part of the Bebearia mardania species complexW. N. Holmes, 2001 A reappraisal of the Bebearia mardania complex (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) June 2001 Tropical Zoology 14(1):31-62 DOI:10.1080/03946975.2001.10531142
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