Fresna cojo
| Fresna cojo | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Fresna |
| Species: | F. cojo |
| Binomial name | |
| Fresna cojo (Karsch, 1893)[1] | |
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Fresna cojo, the Large Acraea Skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of drier open forests and transitional areas into Guinea savanna.
Adults have been recorded on the flowers of Tagetes species.
The larvae feed on Anthonotha crassifolia, Albizia zygia, Andira inermis and Millettia thoningi.
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