Ankola fan Holland, 1894 This species was described from Cameroon (Holland 1894), and occurs from montane eastern Nigeria east to Kenya and south to Zambia (Evans 1937, Larsen 2005, Heath et al. 2002). It seems to be quite common where it occurs, for example it is quite common and regularly seen at Kakamega Forest, particularly the southern part. At Kisii, adults flew in the surprisingly productive overgrown grounds of the Kisii Hotel around 1990, but perhaps no longer do so. Kielland (1990) associates it with swamp forests and marshy riversides in Tanzania. Adult behaviour The adults fly in sunlit clearings and margins of Kakamega Forest, settling on low vegetation, with their wings closed, and sometimes partially open. The flight is weak, and adults seldom fly far unless disturbed. Food plants MJWC found caterpillars in Kakamega Forest and Kisii on Panicum trichocladum, growing in partially shaded situations, and growing up and through other vegetation. This is the ‘climbing grass’ referred to by Larsen ... : Published as part of Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, T. Colin E., 2014, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 7. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: grass and bamboo feeders, pp. 301-354 in Zootaxa 3872 (4) on pages 320-321, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/251860 ...