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<mods:title>Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Cock, Matthew J. W.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>C / o CABI Europe - UK, Bakeham Lane, Egham, TW 20 9 TY, UK (e-mail: m. cock @ cabi. org; mjwcock @ btinternet. com)</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Congdon, Colin E.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), P. O. Box 14308, Nairobi, Kenya (e-mail: colin. congdon @ gmail. com)</mods:affiliation>
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<taxonomicName authority="Mabille, 1893" authorityName="Mabille" authorityYear="1893" box="[151,515,1758,1784]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Acada" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biseriata">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,338,1758,1784]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Acada biseriata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Mabille" box="[346,515,1758,1784]" firstAuthor="Mabille" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" pagination="50 - 65" refId="ref44458" refString="Mabille, P. (1893) Description de Lepidopteres nouveaux. Annales de la Societe entomologique de Belgique, 37, 50 - 65." type="journal article" year="1893">Mabille, 1893</bibRefCitation>
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This species is widely distributed in the Miombo woodland belt from
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, through
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,
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and southern
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to
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,
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and East Africa. In
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it can expected wherever there is extensive
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<emphasis box="[151,299,1901,1926]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Brachystegia</emphasis>
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woodland.
<bibRefCitation author="Sevastopulo" box="[434,655,1901,1926]" firstAuthor="Sevastopulo" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" pagination="131 - 136" refId="ref45528" refString="Sevastopulo, D. G. (1974) Butterflies of the Shimba Hills. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 86, 131 - 136." type="journal article" year="1974">Sevastopulo (1974)</bibRefCitation>
reports it common in Makardara and Marere Forests of the Shimba Hills,
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, throughout the year, and
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considers this one of the commonest of coastal skippers (e.g. very long museum series from Rabai), and found inland as far as Kibwezi and the Ukambani Hills. In spite of this, MJWC encountered it just once in more than four years.
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<emphasis box="[151,286,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Food plants</emphasis>
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The food plant in
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was identified as
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sp.
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(
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) (
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,
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, unpublished). The only
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sp.
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in
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is
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<emphasis box="[592,749,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">B. spiciformis</emphasis>
(
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)
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, which is restricted to the coast.
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points out that there must be other food plants as
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<emphasis box="[778,919,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. biseriatus</emphasis>
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occurs in the Makardara Forest in the absence of
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, and the same applies to the inland populations of
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<emphasis box="[918,1051,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. biseriata</emphasis>
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from Kibwezi and the Ukambani Hills.
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Independently,
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Pringle
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(1994)
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gave the food plant as
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<emphasis box="[861,1017,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">B. spiciformis</emphasis>
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citing R. Paré, and TCEC has reared it from the same food plant in
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(Mufindi) and
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(Mutinondo). Subsequent authors are assumed to be repeating these published records:
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,
<bibRefCitation author="Larsen" box="[761,926,439,464]" firstAuthor="Larsen" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refId="ref43862" refString="Larsen, T. B. (1991) The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 490 pp." type="book" year="1991">Larsen (1991)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Ackery" box="[942,1186,439,464]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ackery" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refId="ref41160" refString="Ackery, P. R., Smith, C. R. &amp; Vane-Wright, R. I. (1995) Carcasson's African Butterflies. An annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. CSIRO Publications, Melbourne, Australia, 803 pp." type="book" year="1995">
Ackery
<emphasis box="[1036,1090,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">et al</emphasis>
. (1995)
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Heath" box="[1203,1431,439,464]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Heath" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refId="ref42672" refString="Heath, A., Newport, M. A. &amp; Hancock, D. (2002) The Butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 137 pp. + CD." type="book" year="2002">
Heath
<emphasis box="[1282,1336,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">et al</emphasis>
. (2002)
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Woodhall, S." bookContentInfo="440 pp." box="[151,344,476,501]" journalOrPublisher="Struik Nature, Capetown, South Africa" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refId="ref47013" refString="Woodhall, S. (2005) Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Struik Nature, Capetown, South Africa, 440 pp." title="Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa" type="book" year="2005">Woodhall (2005)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[151,295,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leaf shelters</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[151,1435,548,645]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Two leaflets are spun together to protect the older caterpillars. The final instar larva binds two leaves together, one below the other, the larva living and pupating in the space between. It is thus very difficult to find in the wild.</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[151,277,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Caterpillar</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[151,1436,692,824]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">“Head bronzy black, slightly indented above. Body green, a dark dorsal line due to the contents of the gut, otherwise unmarked. Anal flap flattened, the outline rounded. The first somite narrow, forming a neck.” (Sevastopulo unpublished). L5 head dark brown, no markings (ABRI specimens).</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[151,210,873,896]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Pupa</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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“Pupa in a cell formed of two spun-together leaflets. Yellowish, the thorax and wing cases tinged with green. Prothoracic spiracle large, crescent shaped, reddish brown. Proboscis sheath reaching the middle of the 6
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abdominal somite ventrad. Cremaster triangular and fringed with a series of long, hooked, purplish spines, which are embedded in a slight silken pad. The pupa is not supported by any girdle.” Pupation took 11 days. (Sevastopulo unpublished).
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There are three emerged pupae preserved in ABRI. They are 15, 15 and
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long; brown; front flattened, and a small bump anterior to each eye; spiracle T1 brown, slightly raised; proboscis projects 1 segment beyond wing cases.
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