Biology:Calleagris lacteus

Short description: Species of butterfly

Calleagris lacteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Calleagris
Species:	C. lacteus
Binomial name
Calleagris lacteus (Mabille, 1877)
Synonyms
Tagiades lacteus Mabille, 1877 Tagiades dannatti Ehrmann, 1893

Calleagris lacteus, the milky scarce flat, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of wetter forests.

Adult males are attracted to bird droppings.

Subspecies

• Calleagris lacteus lacteus (Nigeria: the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Tanzania, north-western and north-eastern Zambia)
• Calleagris lacteus dannatti (Ehrmann, 1893) (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5021870 entry