Sarangesa laelius (Mabille, 1877)

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), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 52-53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068335

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFDE-FFD7-FF0E-F8E0FC93FEE6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Sarangesa laelius (Mabille, 1877)
status

 

206. Sarangesa laelius (Mabille, 1877) View in CoL

WL: 16mm. This is a woodland and Guinea savanna skipper distributed from Mauritania to Nigeria, and from south Sudan to Malawi and Zimbabwe. The host-plants remain unknown, but other species of the genus feed primarily on Acanthaceae .

Studied material. Bafatá: Bagadadja , woodland, 24.02.2013, 1♀ (SV) (CZ000010974) . Cacheu: Caió, common (JB) . Gabú: Sintchá-Dembel , woodland, 22.03.2013, 1♀ (SV) (CZ000010978); Sintchã-Manga, woodland, 0 5.04.2013, 1♂ 2♀ (SV) (CZ000010975-000010977).

Previous references. Regions: Biombo, Quinara. Authors: Mendes et al. (2007).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Sarangesa

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