Gamia buchholzi

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| authority = (Plötz, 1879)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/gamia/index.html Gamia] at funet.fi

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  • Hesperia buchholzi Plötz, 1879
  • Proteides ditissimus Mabille, 1891
  • Gangara basistriga Holland, 1893
  • Gamia robustus Mabille; Holland, 1896

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Gamia buchholzi, commonly known as the grand skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_hesperiinae_2.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Borassus aethiopum, Phoenix reclinata, Raphia monbuttorum, Raphia farinifera and Dracaena species (including Dracaena arborea).

Etymology

The name honours Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz who collected the specimens first described by Plötz.

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Category:Butterflies described in 1879

Category:Astictopterini

Category:Butterflies of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Carl Plötz

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