Caenides dacela
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| Species: | C. dacela
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Caenides dacela, the common recluse, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. All members of Caenides are within the geographical range that stretches stretches from the Basse Casamance in Senegal to Uganda and Kenya, but generally does not penetrate much south of the Equator (mainly to Gabon and upper Kasai).[2] It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and northern Zambia.[3] Amongst the genus Caenides, Caenides dacela is the most common and most widely distributed. [2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Raphia and Phoenix species (including Phoenix dactylifera).
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- ^ Caenides at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Larsen, T. B.; Collins, S. C. (2011-12-01). "The African skipper genus Caenides Holland and the description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae)". Tropical Lepidoptera Research: 62–65. ISSN 2575-9256.
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
- Butterflies described in 1876
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Erionotini stubs