Ceratrichia semilutea
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| Ceratrichia semilutea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Ceratrichia |
| Species: | C. semilutea |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceratrichia semilutea Mabille, 1891[1] | |
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Ceratrichia semilutea, the Tufted Forest Sylph, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have been recorded feeding from low growing flowers.
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