Xanthodisca vibius
Xanthodisca vibius | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Xanthodisca |
Species: | X. vibius |
Binomial name | |
Xanthodisca vibius (Hewitson, 1878)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
|
Xanthodisca vibius, the Vibius orange and Vibius skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. 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 Afromomum species.
References
Wikispecies has information related to: Xanthodisca vibius |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Xanthodisca vibius. |
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.