Biology:Abantis adelica
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Abantis |
| Species: | A. adelica
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| Abantis adelica (Karsch, 1892)[1]
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Abantis adelica, the western ragged skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Burkina Faso,[2] Guinea, Ghana, Togo, northern Nigeria, north-western Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Malawi and possibly southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda.[3] The habitat consists of Guinea savanna.
Adults feed from the flowers of Tridax species.
The larvae possibly feed on Grewia species
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Abantis adelica |
- ↑ Caprona, funet.fi
- ↑ Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018
- ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae". http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_pyrginae.doc.
Wikidata ☰ Q5036310 entry
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