Coeliades aeschylus
Senegal blue policeman | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Coeliades |
Species: | C. aeschylus |
Binomial name | |
Coeliades aeschylus (Plötz, 1884)[1][2] | |
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Coeliades aeschylus, the Senegal blue policeman, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone (north).[3] The habitat consists of the Guinea savanna zone.
The larvae feed on Acridocarpus smeathmanni.
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