Gegenes hottentota Latreille, 1824

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 : 59-60

*244. Gegenes hottentota Latreille, 1824

WL: 14mm. G. hottentota occurs primarily in dry forest, although it may also fly in herbaceous exposed areas and in forest clearings. This species was not previously known from Guinea-Bissau although it is distributed throughout Africa and in southwestern Arabia. The caterpillars feed on several Poaceae .

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: I.

List of species with a high probability of occurring in Guinea-Bissau, but which have not yet been observed in the country (species whose known range extends from Gambia or Senegal to other West African countries)

Family Lycaenidae Subfamily Miletinae

Lachnocnema emperamus ( Snellen, 1872)

Lachnocnema vuattouxi Libert, 1996

Subfamily Theclinae

Iolaus (Iolaphilus) iulus (Hewitson, 1869)

Stugeta marmoreus marmoreus (Butler, 1866)

Subfamily Polyommatinae

Triclema nigeriae ( Aurivillius, 1905)

Family Nymphalidae

Subfamily Charaxinae

Euxanthe eurinome eurinome ( Cramer, 1775)

Palla decius ( Cramer, 1777)

Subfamily Limenitidinae

Euryphura chalcis (Felder & Felder, 1860)

Neptis alta Overlaet, 1955

Subfamily Heliconiinae

Acraea (Acraea) vesperalis Grose-Smith, 1890

Family Hesperiidae

Subfamily Pyrginae

Eagris denuba denuba (Plötz, 1879)

Eretis lugens ( Rogenhofer, 1891)

Triskelionia tricerata ( Mabille, 1891)

Subfamily Hesperiinae

Andronymus neander neander (Plötz, 1884)

Artitropa comus (Stoll, 1782)

Borbo fallax ( Gaede, 1916)

Borbo micans ( Holland, 1896)

Borbo perobscura ( Druce, 1912)

Caenides dacela ( Hewitson, 1876)

Celaenorrhinus galenus ( Fabricius, 1793)

Gegenes pumilio gambica ( Mabille, 1878)

Hypoleucis ophiusa ophiusa (Hewitson, 1866)

Leona halma ( Evans, 1937)

Monza alberti ( Holland, 1896)

Parosmodes morantii axis Evans, 1937

Platylesches chamaeleon ( Mabille, 1891)

Platylesches morigambia ( Larsen, 2013)

Semalea arela ( Mabille, 1891)

Species reported from the forests of Guinea may also occur in Guinea-Bissau’s southern Tombali region (Cantanhez and Cacine forests) and on the border between the southeastern Boé sector and Guinea . Those known from dry savanna in Mauritania, Mali and southern Senegal (Basse Casamance), may also extend to the drier areas of northern Guinea-Bissau .