Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections
Author
Collins, Steve C.
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-08-30
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471
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journal article
32254
10.11646/zootaxa.4312.3.4
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Coeliadinae
The useful paper by
Platt (1921)
listing food plants of South African
Lepidoptera
was overlooked in
Cock (2010b)
. This is the original source of several of the
Coeliadinae
food plants subsequently reported by other South African workers:
Coeliades keithloa
(Wallengren)
:
Acridocarpus natalitius
Coeliades forestan
(Stoll)
:
Combretum apiculatum
,
C. bracteosum
,
Solanum auriculatum
,
Millettia
sutherlandi
Coeliades pisistratus
(Fabricius)
:
Acridocarpus pruriens
Similarly, two small papers with biology information were missed.
Sevastopulo (1964)
reports that
Coeliades sejuncta
(Mabille and Vuillot)
and
C. anchises
(Gerstaecker)
are attracted to light by night (see also under
Baorini
below), and
Van Someren (1955)
reports
C. forestan
hilltopping, ‘basking in the sun or chasing any intruder out of its particular territory’.