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Hewitson, 1866
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This species occurs in two subspecies, the nominate ssp. (
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) from
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to
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and western
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, and ssp.
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Evans from
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(
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locality), the rest of
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and
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(
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Ackery
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. 1995
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).
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CEEC9532270FFA73" bold="true" box="[151,281,1865,1887]" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">FIGURE 25</emphasis>
. Adult
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CF1E95322492FA73" box="[357,644,1865,1887]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Hypoleucis ophiusa ophiusa</emphasis>
, Port Harcourt
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, Nigeria [© D. Motshagen].
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CEBC95F7274DFA89" bold="true" box="[199,347,1932,1957]" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Food plants.</emphasis>
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indicates that one species of
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CD3795F725DCFA89" box="[844,970,1932,1957]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Hypoleucis</emphasis>
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is recorded from
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CAE895F622C9FA88" box="[1171,1247,1933,1956]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Costus</emphasis>
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; this is probably based on MJWCs records for
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CF8D95CA2462FAE5" box="[502,628,1968,1993]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">H. ophiusa</emphasis>
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(below).
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reared this species six times at Lamto,
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from
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CF4595AE27D5FAC1" box="[318,451,2005,2029]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Costus afer</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CC7995AE2506FAC1" box="[514,784,2004,2029]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Paracostus englerianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(=
<taxonomicName id="4C2F12D6FFB5B126CD4495AE220DFAC1" box="[831,1051,2004,2029]" class="Liliopsida" family="Costaceae" genus="Costus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Zingiberales" pageId="21" pageNumber="222" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="englerianus">
<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB5B126CD4495AE220DFAC1" box="[831,1051,2004,2029]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Costus englerianus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, see
<bibRefCitation id="EFBE14A4FFB5B126CA2695AF2387FAC1" author="Specht" box="[1117,1425,2004,2029]" pageId="21" pageNumber="247" refString="Specht, C. D. &amp; Stevenson, D. W. (2006) A new phylogeny-based generic classification of Costaceae (Zingiberales). Taxon, 55 (1), 153 - 163. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 25065537" type="journal article" year="2006">Specht &amp; Stevenson 2006</bibRefCitation>
).
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<bibRefCitation id="EFBE14A4FFB6B125CEEC92E32721FD9C" author="Larsen" box="[151,311,151,176]" pageId="22" pageNumber="246" refString="Larsen, T. B. (2005) Butterflies of West Africa. 2 Vols. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 595 + 270 pp." type="book" year="2005">Larsen (2005)</bibRefCitation>
describes finding caterpillars on
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CCCD92E32510FD9C" box="[694,774,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">C. afer</emphasis>
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at Obudu Town,
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(
<date id="FF914F95FFB6B125CA4D92E322B1FD9C" box="[1078,1191,151,176]" pageId="22" pageNumber="223" value="1996-10">Oct 1996</date>
): the leaf shelters are made of rolled leaves and the caterpillar devours three-quarters of the leaf before changing shelter, and on this occasion almost defoliated the plant. Pupation took place at the very base of a leaf, attached by the cremaster at the stem of the food plant, without making a shelter. The lack of a shelter may reflect the lack of leaves rather than normal biology (T.B. Larsen pers. comm. 2015). Vande weghe (2010) gives the food plant as
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CAD5935322ECFC13" box="[1198,1274,296,319]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">Costus</emphasis>
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.
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MJWC reared
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CF14933627FAFC49" box="[367,492,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">H. ophiusa</emphasis>
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in
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(MJWC 89/213) and
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(MJWC 90/207) on
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CB7D93362344FC48" box="[1286,1362,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">Costus</emphasis>
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sp(p). The food plant in
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was also the food plant of
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CD59931425F3FCA4" box="[802,997,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">Caenides dacena</emphasis>
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and is shown in
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under that species; it was identified as either
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or
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<taxonomicName id="4C2F12D6FFB6B125CC9E93EE25B4FC81" box="[741,930,404,429]" class="Liliopsida" family="Costaceae" genus="Costus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Zingiberales" pageId="22" pageNumber="223" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="lucanusianus">C. lucanusianus</taxonomicName>
.
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Caterpillars did not accept
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sp. (
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) in captivity. The following observations were made on two caterpillars collected in the Forêt du Yapo,
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in
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(MJWC 89/213), except the head and spiracle measurements are the average of all material available.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CEBC905F2771FF11" bold="true" box="[199,359,548,573]" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">Leaf shelters.</emphasis>
The leaf shelters are distinctive; a leaf of about
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length is cut diagonally at about 1/ 3 from base, from one margin, through the mid-rib to within a
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of the other margin; the hanging distal portion is then rolled upwards to make a tubular shelter of about
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diameter, and
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length. The leaf shelter found near Douala,
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(MJWC 90/207) was noted to be similar.
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CEEC952B2737FA4A" bold="true" box="[151,289,1872,1894]" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">FIGURE 26.</emphasis>
Caterpillars of
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB6B125CFB9952B24F2FA4A" box="[450,740,1872,1894]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="223">Hypoleucis ophiusa ophiusa</emphasis>
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, collected on
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sp., Forêt du Yapo, Côte dIvoire, 3 Jun 1989; MJWC 89/213B.
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, penultimate instar, detail of head in anterodorsal view; moulted and photographed 14 Jun; 15mm;
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, final instar, detail of head in anterodorsolateral view; moulted and photographed 14 Jun; 21mm;
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, final instar, dorsolateral view, as #2.
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB7B124CEBC92EC2747FD9C" bold="true" box="[199,337,151,176]" pageId="23" pageNumber="224">Caterpillar.</emphasis>
The penultimate and n-2 instars are translucent dark green with a black, rugose head, paler ventrally (Figure 26.1); the head of the former measured 0.8 x
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wide x high, and of the later 1.8 x
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. The final instar (Figure 26.23) measured
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about half way through the instar; head 2.3 x 3.3 wide x high, indent at vertex, widest towards base; rugose; very light brown with brown line adjacent to epicranial suture and from vertex laterally to stemmata; brown line down centre of each epicranium; half of adfrontals against frons brown. Body dull, translucent green, dorsal line darker; pronotum a narrow black plate on posterior margin T1, stopping short of the spiracles; spiracles light brown, those of T1 and A8 more conspicuous; pale subcutaneous patch around and above spiracle A8; all legs concolorous except those of T1 slightly brown.
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB7B124CEBC93CC271AFCFC" bold="true" box="[199,268,439,464]" pageId="23" pageNumber="224">Pupa.</emphasis>
MJWC found that in captivity the pupa is formed in the last caterpillar leaf shelter. No description was prepared of the pupa from life. It is similar in shape to those of
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spp. and
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB7B124CA5493A722ADFCD9" box="[1071,1211,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="224">Xanthodisca</emphasis>
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spp., but the colour is light green apart from a dark dorsal line on thorax and abdomen, brown spiracles and the light brown rim to the spiracle of T1 (
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). The emerged pupa is white. The rim of spiracle T1 measures
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dorsally,
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ventrally,
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posteriorly and the hole is
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wide dorsoventrally. The pupa took 20 days to complete development, while another from
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(MJWC 90/207) took 26 days.
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