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Libythea labdaca (African Snout Butterfly)

Wikipedia Abstract

Libythea labdaca the African Snout Butterfly is a member of the butterfly subfamily Libytheinae found in Western and Central Africa. It forms vast migratory swarms (over 1 billion butterflies were estimated in Ghana). The butterflies move south in the Spring and north in the Autumn. The larvae feed on Celtis species (including Celtis kraussiana and C. sayauxii).
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Infraspecies

Libythea labdaca ancoata
Libythea labdaca labdaca
Libythea labdaca werneri

Prey / Diet

Celtis africana (White Stinkwood)[1]
Celtis zenkeri[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0