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Zophopetes ganda Evans 1937
Description
*224. Zophopetes ganda Evans, 1937
WL: 20mm. Z. ganda is assigned for the first time to Guinea-Bissau, which now constitutes the northernmost geographical limit of its known range. This species is known by rare specimens from West Africa (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria), Cameroon, Gabon, CAR, Uganda and Tanzania (Larsen, 2005). The caterpillars feed on Arecaceae, frequent in the area of Cantanhez, where most of the production of palm-oil (Elaeis guineensis) in the country is carried out.
Studied material. Tombali: Jemberem (PNFC), 14.07.2009, 1♀ (BS 29526).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: R.
Notes
Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PNFC
- Event date
- 2009-07-14
- Verbatim event date
- 2009-07-14
- Scientific name authorship
- Evans
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Zophopetes
- Species
- ganda
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zophopetes ganda Evans, 1937 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Evans, W. H. (1937) A catalogue of the African Hesperiidae indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. Order of the Trustees, London, xii + 212 pp.