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Hewitson, 1878
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This species is found from
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to
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and south to
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(
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locality
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) (
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Ackery
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. 1995
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,
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). In
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, it is a scarce species restricted to Kakamega Forest, and perhaps other western forests. MJWC never saw the adult, but did once rear it from a caterpillar.
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CEBC979C2745FB2C" bold="true" box="[199,339,1511,1536]" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Food plants</emphasis>
.
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gives
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CC1E979324D9F8D3" box="[613,719,1512,1535]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Amomum</emphasis>
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sp. as the food plant in
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, a record apparently repeated by
<bibRefCitation id="EFBE14A4FFB2B121CEEC9477276FFB09" author="Sevastopulo" box="[151,377,1548,1573]" pageId="18" pageNumber="247" refString="Sevastopulo, D. G. (1975) Hesperiidae. In: Sevastopulo, D. G. (1975 - 1978) A list of the food-plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society, 34, pp. 131 - 132. [34 - 37, 84 - 92, 124 - 132, 175 - 184 (34); 94 - 100, 177 - 195 (35); 45 - 50 (36); 147 - 172, 202 - 216 (37)]" type="journal article" year="1975">Sevastopulo (1975)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFBE14A4FFB2B121CFF094772454FB08" author="Kielland" box="[395,578,1548,1573]" pageId="18" pageNumber="246" refString="Kielland, J. (1990) Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne, 363 pp." type="book" year="1990">Kielland (1990)</bibRefCitation>
and
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Ackery
<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CC989476250FFB09" box="[739,793,1548,1573]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">et al</emphasis>
. (1995)
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. MJWC reared this species from
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CB6A947727DAFB64" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Aframomum zambesiacum zambesiacum</emphasis>
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, the normal food plant of
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CC8E945425A6FB64" box="[757,944,1583,1608]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Semalea pulvina</emphasis>
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in Kakamega Forest. TCEC has reared this species from the Rondo Plateau, south-east
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and at Kihansi, south central
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, from
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CA91942F2363FB40" box="[1258,1397,1620,1644]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Aframomum</emphasis>
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sp. The former may be the origin of the record of
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CCCE94032556FBBC" box="[693,832,1656,1680]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Aframomum</emphasis>
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in
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Heath
<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CDCF940225FEFBBC" box="[948,1000,1655,1680]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">et al</emphasis>
. (2002)
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. It seems likely that the early record from
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CF5894E7279BFB9F" box="[291,397,1692,1715]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Amomum</emphasis>
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should be referred to
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CCF894E7251BFB98" box="[643,781,1692,1716]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Aframomum</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CEBC94C4275DFBF4" bold="true" box="[199,331,1727,1752]" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Caterpillar</emphasis>
. MJWC reared this species once from the final instar from amongst a batch of
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CB5E94BB238AFBF4" box="[1317,1436,1727,1752]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">S. pulvina</emphasis>
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caterpillars collected from Kakamega Forest
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(MJWC 90/70G). He did not notice any differences in the shelters or caterpillars at the time, and was surprised when one pupa produced a female
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. Examination of the cast head capsule revealed no qualitative difference between these two species; the clypeus, frons, adfrontals and a stripe down the epicranial suture light brown; the rest of the epicranium rugose, the raised areas darker brown and the pits lighter brown; posterior margin basally pale; it measured 2.2 x
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wide x high, almost exactly the same as that of the final instar of
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(2.2 x
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).
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TCEC has reared this species at Kihansi and the Rondo Plateau,
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, from
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB2B121CA3195C722C3FAF8" box="[1098,1237,1980,2004]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="219">Aframomum</emphasis>
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sp. It can be seen that the caterpillar (
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) does indeed resemble those of
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB3B120CD3892E325A5FD9C" box="[835,947,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="220">S. pulvina</emphasis>
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, but was noted to be more squat, green, and with a squared off anal plate with a dark transverse mark.
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB3B120CEEC9175270BFE08" bold="true" box="[151,285,782,804]" pageId="19" pageNumber="220">FIGURE 22</emphasis>
. Dorsal view of final instar caterpillar of
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collected on
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sp., Rondo Plateau, Tanzania, 20 Mar 1998 [TCEC].
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<emphasis id="B95BB547FFB3B120CEEC954F270EFA66" bold="true" box="[151,280,1844,1866]" pageId="19" pageNumber="220">FIGURE 23</emphasis>
. Pupa of
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collected on
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sp., Kihansi, south central Tanzania, 19 Nov 2006 [TCEC].
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, dorsolateral view;
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, lateral view.
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. The
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pupa that MJWC reared is very similar to that of
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, but the most obvious difference is in the dimensions of the semi-circular body around the T1 spiracle: the central hole measured
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across ventrally-dorsally, and the rim measured
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across dorsally,
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posteriorly and
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ventrally. In addition (based on the emerged pupae of both) the pupa of
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is more uniformly pale compared to that of
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; an irregular dark mark subdorsally between the T1 spiracles, another dorsolaterally on the anterior margin of T3, A1 and A4-A6; proboscis reaches to the end of the penultimate abdominal segment. The pupa took 19 days until the adult emerged. The pupa documented by TCEC from Kihansi (
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) is similar, but is darker and the distribution of dark markings differs, suggesting there is probably significant individual variation in colouring.
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