Ceratrichia phocion
| Ceratrichia phocion | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Ceratrichia |
| Species: | C. phocion |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceratrichia phocion (Fabricius, 1781)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ceratrichia phocion, the common forest sylph, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers.
Subspecies
- Ceratrichia phocion phocion (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
- Ceratrichia phocion camerona Miller, 1971 (Cameroon: except west, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo)
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