Biology:Fresna cojo

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Fresna cojo
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Fresna
Species:
F. cojo
Binomial name
Fresna cojo
(Karsch, 1893)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila (Hesperia) cojo Karsch, 1893

Fresna cojo, the large Acraea skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of drier open forests and transitional areas into Guinea savanna.

Adults have been recorded on the flowers of Tagetes species.

The larvae feed on Anthonotha crassifolia, Albizia zygia, Andira inermis and Millettia thoningi.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5503143 entry