| African Snout Butterfly | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Libythea |
| Species: | L. labdaca |
| Binomial name | |
| Libythea labdaca (Westwood, 1851) |
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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 (Celtis kraussiana and C. sayauxii).
Kawahara, A. Y. 2006. Biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae, Libytheinae), Part 1: Libythea Fabricius. Transactions of the lepidopterological Society of Japan 57:13-33.