Gamia buchholzi
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Family: | Hesperiidae
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Species: | G. buchholzi
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Gamia buchholzi, the grand skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on Borassus aethiopum, Phoenix reclinata, , Raphia farinifera and Dracaena species (including ).
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Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1879
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Erionotini stubs