Xanthodisca vibius
| Xanthodisca vibius | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Xanthodisca |
| Species: | X. vibius |
| Binomial name | |
| Xanthodisca vibius (Hewitson, 1878)[1] | |
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Xanthodisca vibius, the Vibius orange and Vibius skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, eastern Tanzania, Malawi, north-western and north-eastern Zambia and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of forests and moist dense woodland, especially Brachystegia woodland.
Adults are known to mud-puddle. They are on wing from January to May.
The larvae feed on Afromomum species.
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