Axiocerses amanga ( Westwood, 1881 )

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 : 21

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.6068024
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFF9-FFF7-FF0E-F997FCBAF8A7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Axiocerses amanga ( Westwood, 1881 )
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*55. Axiocerses amanga ( Westwood, 1881) View in CoL

WL: 14mm. A. amanga is typical of savanna and is new for Guinea-Bissau . This species was previously known from Senegal to Nigeria and Niger and, through Cameroon to Uganda, Kenya, southern Sudan , and southwards to South Africa (Larsen, 2005). The host-plants are Ximenia (Olacaceae) and Acacia (Fabaceae) and the caterpillars usually occur with Camponotus ants.

Studied material. Bafatá: Gafati , woodland, 31.01.2013, 1♂ (SV) (CZ000011051).

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