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[Coeliades bixana Evans]
Papilio bixae Clerck, 1759: pi. 42, fig. 4 (not Linne) (no locality cited); preoccupied by Papilio bixae Linne, 1758, a neotropical species of the genus Pyrrhopyge.
Coeliades bixana Evans, 1940: 411 (Ghana).
Figures 10-13, £ genitalia. Fig. 10, Coeliades c. chalybe, Zorzor, Liberia. Fig. 11, C. libeon, Harbel, Liberia. Fig. 12. C. f. forestan, Cape Palmas, Liberia. Fig. 13, C. hanno. Ganta, Liberia.
Apparently bixana is unrecorded from Liberia, but it may be expected in at least the eastern part of the country. It has been reported from nearby Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Berger, 1962: 447), and Evans (1937: 11) records it from Ghana to Angola. There are specimens in Carnegie Museum from Ghana and Cameroon.
- bibliographic citation
- Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA
Coeliades bixana: Brief Summary
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Coeliades bixana, the dark blue policeman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.
It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south), Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its habitat consists of primary forests.
Larvae feed on Cassia species and Triaspis odorata.
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