Semalea pulvina

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 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068369
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFDB-FFD5-FF0E-F9B2FE6EF8E1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Semalea pulvina
status

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221. Semalea pulvina View in CoL (Pl ӧtz, 1879)

WL: 16mm. This species inhabits forests and occurs along most of tropical Africa from Senegal to Angola, Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique. Caterpillars reportedly feed on Zingiberaceae .

Previous references. Regions: Bolama, Gabú. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2007).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.

Obs.: As previously mentioned, the PNLC references to this species by Mendes et al. (2007), actually concern Astictopterus abjecta .