Ceratrichia semilutea

Ceratrichia semilutea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Ceratrichia
Species: C. semilutea
Binomial name
Ceratrichia semilutea
Mabille, 1891[1]
Synonyms
  • Ceratrichia indeterminabilis Strand, 1912

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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