Gretna cylinda

Gretna cylinda
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Gretna
Species:	G. cylinda
Binomial name
Gretna cylinda (Hewitson, 1876)[1]
Synonyms
Hesperia cylinda Hewitson, 1876 Proteides ruralis Mabille; Holland, 1896

Gretna cylinda, the lesser crepuscular skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda and north-western Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers, including those of .

The larvae feed on Trachyphrynium braunianum, Thalia welwitschii and .

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