Libythea labdaca

Taxobox
name = African Snout Butterfly

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image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Libytheinae
genus = "Libythea"
species = "L. labdaca"
binomial = "Libythea labdaca"
binomial_authority = (Westwood, 1851)

"Libythea labdaca" the African Snout Butterfly is a member of the butterfly subfamily Libytheinae found in Western and Central Africa.

It forms vast migratory swarms (over 1 billion butterflies were estimated in Ghana). The butterflies move south in the Spring and north in the Autumn.The larvae feed on Celtis ("Celtis kraussiana" and " C. sayauxii").

References

Kawahara, A. Y. 2006. Biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae, Libytheinae), Part 1: Libythea Fabricius. "Transactions of the lepidopterological Society of Japan" 57:13-33.

External links

* [http://tolweb.org/Libytheana/12185 "Libytheana" page at Tree of Life]