Pyrrhiades
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Pyrrhiades | |
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Western blue policeman Pyrrhiades lucagus, Ghana | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subfamily: | Coeliadinae |
Genus: | Pyrrhiades Lindsey & Miller, 1965 |
Species: | P. lucagus
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Binomial name | |
Pyrrhiades lucagus | |
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Pyrrhiades is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one species, Pyrrhiades lucagus, the western blue policeman, which is found in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.[2] The habitat consists of coastal forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers, bird droppings and mud patches.
The larvae feed on Acridocarpus smeathmanni.
References
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- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus databaseError: "Q1760218" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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