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Bicyclus campus

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4903832 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bicyclus campus, the hill bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, northern Cameroon, northern Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya and eastern Tanzania. The habitat consists of hilly terrain with forest/savanna mosaic.

Editorial summary

“Bicyclus campus” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bicyclus, campus and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 51-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bicyclus, campus and species.
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Why this record matters

“Bicyclus campus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bicyclus, campus and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4903832.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bicyclus campus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.