Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 7. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: grass and bamboo feeders
Author
Cock, Matthew J. W.
Author
Congdon, T. Colin E.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3872
4
301
354
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3872.4.1
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1175-5326
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Lepella
Evans, 1937
This is a distinctive monobasic genus, the only species,
L. lepeletier
(Latreille)
being found from
Nigeria
east to western
Kenya
and south to
Angola
(
Ackery
et al
. 1995
), being found on the fringes of the main forest belt rather than in it (
Larsen 2005
). It has been reported to feed on ‘grasses’ (
Van Someren 1974
) and ‘grasses generally’ (
Sevastopulo 1975
), although Sevastopulo (unpublished) does not seem to have reared it himself. Subsequent authors repeat this information, but we have not traced any more details.