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Sarangesa laelius Mabille 1877

Description

206. Sarangesa laelius (Mabille, 1877)

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.

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 pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215

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References

  • Mendes, L. F., Bivar-de-Sousa, A. & Consciencia, S. (2007) Novos dados sobre os lepidopteros diurnos (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea) da Guine-Bissau. I - Introducao e Hesperiidae. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 41, 209 - 221.