Coeliades aeschylus
| Senegal blue policeman | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Coeliades |
| Species: | C. aeschylus |
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| Coeliades aeschylus | |
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Coeliades aeschylus, the Senegal blue policeman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso[3], and Sierra Leone (north).[4] The habitat consists of the Guinea savanna zone.
The larvae feed on Acridocarpus smeathmanni.
References
[edit]- ↑ Ismene aeschylus Plötz, 1884. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 45: 65 (51-66).
- ↑ Coeliades, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018
- ↑ Williams, Mark (2008) Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region. An Encyclopedia. Seventh Edition. File 0.
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