Xanthodisca vibius
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Family: | Hesperiidae
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Species: | X. vibius
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Xanthodisca vibius, the Vibius orange and Vibius skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, eastern Tanzania, Malawi, north-western and north-eastern Zambia and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of forests and moist dense woodland, especially Brachystegia woodland.
Adults are known to mud-puddle. They are on wing from January to May.
The larvae feed on Aframomum species.
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Categories:
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Butterflies described in 1878
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Erionotini stubs