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Caenides dacena (Hewitson, 1876)

- corduba (Hewitson, 1876)
- leucopogon (Mabille, 1891)
- masiva (Mabille & Vuillot, [1891])

Adult morphologyWingspan26
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)1414
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)123
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
MEF:
Centered on the moist semi-deciduous forest types
MEF
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWQ:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to most of the equatorial forest zone
WWQ

Identification

Needs to be removed to another genus, see the recent paper by Larsen & Collins (2011)[3].

Biology

Flight period:

Records


1. ^ Larsen (2010)
2. ^ Larsen (2010)
3. ^ Larsen, T.B. and S.C. Collins (2011), “The African skipper genus Caenides Holland and the description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae)”, Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 21, 2: 62-65. 
last modified 29 December 2011