Zophopetes cerymica
| Common palm nightfighter | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Zophopetes |
| Species: | Z. cerymica |
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| Zophopetes cerymica | |
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Zophopetes cerymica, the common palm nightfighter, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso[2], Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Zambia.[3] It is found in various habitats, as long as palms are present.
Adults have been recorded feeding from red flowers of a root parasite.
The larvae feed on Elaeis guineensis, Cocos nucifera, Raphia, Borassus and Phoenix species.
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- ↑ Zophopetes at funet.fi
- ↑ Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae