Ceratrichia semilutea

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Ceratrichia semilutea
Scientific classification
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Hesperiidae
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C. semilutea
Binomial name
Ceratrichia semilutea
Synonyms
  • Ceratrichia indeterminabilis Strand, 1912

Ceratrichia semilutea, the tufted forest sylph, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding from low growing flowers.

References[]

  1. ^ "Ceratrichia Butler, [1870]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae


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