Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Scientific name Libythea labdaca | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Libythea Rank Subspecies | |
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Similar Leptosia alcesta, Tagiades flesus, Axiocerses amanga, Eurytela dryope, Tirumala petiverana | ||
Libythea labdaca, the African snout butterfly, lobed beak or southern beak, is a member of the butterfly subfamily Libytheinae found in western and central Africa, and southern India.
It forms vast migratory swarms (over 1 billion butterflies were estimated in Ghana). The butterflies move south in the spring and north in the autumn.
The larvae feed on Celtis species (including C. kraussiana and C. sayauxii).
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