Gorgyra mocquerysii Holland 1896
Gorgyra mocquerysii Holland, 1896 This species is widespread, but seldom common; it is found from West Africa as far east as western Kenya and south to northern Zambia (Evans 1937, Larsen 2005). MJWC reared a female in Côte d’Ivoire. Food plants MJWC found this species on Agelaea pentagyna (or near) (Connaraceae) in Côte d’Ivoire (88/210). A final instar caterpillar and an emerged pupa were collected beside an open track in a patch of forest at Adiopodoumé, near the lagoon. The food plant had large, tough trifoliate leaves. Leaf shelters One leaf margin was extensively eaten 2/3 of the distanc... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | other |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
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Schlagwörter: | Biodiversity / Taxonomy / Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Lepidoptera / Hesperiidae / Gorgyra / Gorgyra mocquerysii |
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Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28680585 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5268098 |
Gorgyra mocquerysii Holland, 1896 This species is widespread, but seldom common; it is found from West Africa as far east as western Kenya and south to northern Zambia (Evans 1937, Larsen 2005). MJWC reared a female in Côte d’Ivoire. Food plants MJWC found this species on Agelaea pentagyna (or near) (Connaraceae) in Côte d’Ivoire (88/210). A final instar caterpillar and an emerged pupa were collected beside an open track in a patch of forest at Adiopodoumé, near the lagoon. The food plant had large, tough trifoliate leaves. Leaf shelters One leaf margin was extensively eaten 2/3 of the distance to the midrib distal and basal to the shelter, which was about ¼ of the distance from the base to the apex of the leaf; the shelter lid was turned over upwards onto the leaf, measured 20 x 15mm, and the edges had started to turn brown. Caterpillar The final instar caterpillar (Figure 16) measured 18mm when collected; head rounded, widest in bottom half, 2.35 x 2.94mm wide x high; dull light brown, covered with very short, fine, white setae; body yellowish green, yellower at anterior and posterior ends; anal plate brownish. Pupa 13mm; abdomen pale, turning dark before eclosion (Figure 17); thorax and head brown; apex of abdomen curved down to cremaster; spatulate bifurcate frontal projection. The pupa eclosed after 18 days. ; Published as part of Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, Colin E., 2013, Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 3724 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3724.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5267833