Zophopetes cerymica
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| Family: | Hesperiidae
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| Species: | Z. cerymica
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Zophopetes cerymica, the common palm nightfighter, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Zambia.[2] It is found in various habitats, as long as palms are present.
Adults have been recorded feeding from red flowers of a root parasite.
The larvae feed on Elaeis guineensis, Cocos nucifera, Raphia, Borassus and Phoenix species.
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Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1867
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Erionotini stubs