Salamis cacta cacta ( Fabricius, 1793 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 40

*147. Salamis cacta cacta ( Fabricius, 1793)

WL: 37mm. S. cacta is a forest species, now assigned for the first time to Guinea-Bissau, from where the genus Salamis has also never been reported. The present subspecies ranges from Senegal to Angola, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, western Kenya and Ethiopia . Another subspecies, S. c. amaniensis, flies in East Africa, from coastal Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambique, Malawi and eastern Zimbabwe . The caterpillars feed on Urera (Urticaceae).

Studied material. Tombali: Mato de Lautchande ( PNFC), 12.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29083).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.