Bicyclus aurivillii

Bicyclus aurivillii is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

Description
M. aurivillii Btlr. is similar to the preceding species [M. saussurei Dew.], but differs in having the basal part of the wings above blackish, in the forewing having only small white spots in cellules 3 and 4 and only blind,indistinct eye-spots and the hindwing having only a rather large white spot between veins 3 and 6, but no eye-spots; the eye-spots on the under surface almost exactly as in saussurei; the species is larger than saussurei and has the fringes chequered with white and brown, on the hindwing strongly undulate. In the female the hindwing has only one hair-pencil, the pencil in cellule 6 being absent. German East Africa; Ruanda and Ruwenzori.

Subspecies

 * Bicyclus aurivillii aurivillii (border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda)
 * Bicyclus aurivillii kivuensis (Joicey & Talbot, 1924) (north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi)