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Ceratrichia phocion

Synonyms: Cyclopides phocaeus; Papilio phocion

Wikipedia Abstract

Ceratrichia phocion, the common forest sylph, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests. Adults are attracted to flowers.
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Infraspecies

Ceratrichia phocion camerona
Ceratrichia phocion phocion

Prey / Diet

Bambusa vulgaris (common bamboo)[1]
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane)[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