Semalea pulvina

Semalea pulvina
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Semalea
Species:	S. pulvina
Binomial name
Semalea pulvina (Plötz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
Hesperia pulvina Plötz, 1879 Hesperia ilias Plötz, 1879 Hesperia tenebricosa Plötz, 1882 Cobalus carbo Mabille, 1890 Ceratrichia paucipunctata Bethune-Baker, 1908 Baoris ilias ab. punctifera Strand, 1913

Semalea pulvina, the silky dart, silky skipper or branded silky skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding on blossoms of Syzygium cordatum. They are on wing from August to September and from February to May.

The larvae feed on Siphonochilus aethiopicus and Aframomum species.

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