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Coeliades pisistratus Fabricius 1793
Description
204. Coeliades pisistratus (Fabricius, 1793)
WL: 25mm. The species is distributed along tropical Africa, but is absent from the extreme biotopes: rain forests, very dry savanna and desert. The caterpillars feed on Asclepiadaceae, Fabaceae, Combretaceae and Malpighiaceae.
Previous references. Regions: Without a precise location. Authors: Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2007).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: LC.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Coeliades
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Species
- pisistratus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coeliades pisistratus Fabricius, 1793 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Fabricius, J. C. (1793) Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. 3 (1). Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae (Copenhagen), [vi] + 488 pp.
- Mendes, L. F., Bivar-de-Sousa, A. & Consciencia, S. (2007) Novos dados sobre os lepidopteros diurnos (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea) da Guine-Bissau. I - Introducao e Hesperiidae. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 41, 209 - 221.