Spialia wrefordi Evans, 1951

Cock, Matthew J. W., 2016, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 10. Pyrginae, Carcharodini, Zootaxa 4173 (4), pp. 301-350 : 336

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3E955EB2-79DE-462C-B3EE-E4AF334D1F61

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632244

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B14087C8-FF9B-927E-16BA-F894FEBC01B8

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scientific name

Spialia wrefordi Evans, 1951
status

 

Spialia wrefordi Evans, 1951

Spialia wrefordi , along with S. dromus and S. ploetzi is placed in the dromus group of Spialia by De Jong (1978). It was described from north-east Uganda (Evans 1951) and is restricted to this area and north-western Kenya as far east as Meru and Marsabit Parks (De Jong 1978, Larsen 1991). It is restricted to the drylands of north and northwest Kenya. Nothing more is known of the habitat and incidence of this species, and the food plants and life history are unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Spialia

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