Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Coeliades | |
Similar Coeliades forestan, Coeliades, Coeliadinae | ||
Coeliades aeschylus, the Senegal blue policeman, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone (north). The habitat consists of the Guinea savanna zone.
The larvae feed on Acridocarpus smeathmanni.
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