Gretna balenge balenge Holland, 1891 There are two subspecies recognised for Gretna balenge: the nominate subspecies which Holland (1891) described from Benita, Gabon, occurs from Nigeria to Uganda, western Tanzania, much of DR Congo, and north-western Zambia, while ssp. zowa Lindsey & Miller was described from Liberia and is found from Sierra Leone to the Volta area (Lindsey & Miller 1965, Larsen 2005). In Tanzania, ssp. balenge is now known from Bukoba, Kigoma and Mpanda. Adult behaviour. Carcasson (1981) notes that it flies at both dawn and dusk. Larsen (2005) reports ABRI collectors catching this species coming to ‘various kinds of foul bait’ near collecting camps in Cameroon and Central African Republic. In TCEC’s experience this is not a true forest species, but occurs wherever palms grow, including open situations on river banks, etc. Food plants. TCEC has reared this species from Raphia farinifera in Tanzania, and Eremospatha sp. rattan palms in north-western Zambia. The latter is the ... : Published as part of Cock, Matthew J. W., Congdon, Colin E. & Collins, Steve C., 2014, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 6. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: palm feeders, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 3831 (1) on pages 40-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3831.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4920824 ...