Myrina silenus silenus ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 19

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10254166
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scientific name	Myrina silenus silenus ( Fabricius, 1775 )
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45. Myrina silenus silenus ( Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL

WL: 17mm. This is a common species of the Guinea savanna. It is blue, with a chestnut apical spot on the forewing and long tornal tails on the hindwing. Ranging from Senegal to Angola, Uganda and Sudan, four additional subspecies are known in Africa. The caterpillars feed on several species of Ficus (Moraceae) .

Previous references. Regions: Bolama, Tombali. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2008).

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