Coeliades hanno

Coeliades hanno
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hesperiidae
Genus:Coeliades
Species: C. hanno
Binomial name
Coeliades hanno
(Plötz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ismene hanno Plötz, 1879
  • Ismene necho Plötz, 1884
  • Rhopalocampta necho ab. tripunctata Aurivillius, 1925

Coeliades hanno, the three pip policeman or western policeman, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Sao Tome, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense savanna.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and adult males also feed on bird droppings.

The larvae feed on Flabellaria paniculata and Acridocarpus species.

References

  1. ↑ Coeliades, funet.fi
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Coeliadinae


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