Gamia buchholzi

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Gamia buchholzi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Gamia
Species:
G. buchholzi
Binomial name
Gamia buchholzi
(Plötz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
List
  • Hesperia buchholzi Plötz, 1879
  • Proteides ditissimus Mabille, 1891
  • Gangara basistriga Holland, 1893
  • Gamia robustus Mabille; Holland, 1896

Gamia buchholzi, commonly known as the grand skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Borassus aethiopum, Phoenix reclinata, Raphia monbuttorum, Raphia farinifera and Dracaena species (including Dracaena arborea).

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