Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Coeliades | |
Similar Coeliades, Coeliades bixana, Coeliades pisistratus, Butterflies and moths, Acraea bonasia | ||
Coeliades chalybe, the blue policeman, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, from Equatorial Guinea to Angola and to Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of primary and secondary forests.
Adults of both sexes feed at flowers on forest edges or along forest roads. Adult males also feed from bird droppings.
The larvae feed on Theobroma cacao, Cynanchum, Acridocarpus (including Acridocarpus smeathmanni) and Marsdenia species.
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