Ceratricula is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.[2] It is monotypic, being represented by the species Ceratricula semilutea, commonly known as the tufted forest sylph which is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[3] The habitat consists of forests.

Ceratricula semilutea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Astictopterini
Genus: Ceratricula
Larsen, 2013
Species:
C. semilutea
Binomial name
Ceratricula semilutea
(Mabille, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ceratrichia indeterminabilis Strand, 1912
  • Ceratrichia semilutea Mabille, 1891

Adults have been recorded feeding from low growing flowers.

References

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  1. ^ "Ceratrichia Butler, [1870]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Larsen, Torben B. (2013-06-04). "Ceratricula and Flandria—two new genera of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Hesperiinae (incertae sedis)) for species currently placed in the genus Ceratrichia Butler". Zootaxa. 3666 (4): 476. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.4.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26217864.
  3. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae