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
  • Astictopterus vibius Hewitson, 1878

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.