Gamia buchholzi
| Gamia buchholzi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Gamia |
| Species: | G. buchholzi |
| Binomial name | |
| Gamia buchholzi (Plötz, 1879)[1] | |
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Gamia buchholzi, the Grand Skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers
The larvae feed on Borassus aethiopum, Phoenix reclinata, Raphia mombutorum, Raphia farinifera and Dracaena species (including Dracaena arborea).
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