Caenides dacela

Caenides dacela
	Caenides dacela figure 2
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Caenides
Species:	C. dacela
Binomial name
	Caenides dacela; (Hewitson, 1876)[1]
Synonyms
	Hesperia dacela Hewitson, 1876; Hesperia nydia Plötz, 1879;

Caenides dacela, the common recluse, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. All members of Caenides are within the geographical range that stretches stretches from the Basse Casamance in Senegal to Uganda and Kenya, but generally does not penetrate much south of the Equator (mainly to Gabon and upper Kasai).[2] It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and northern Zambia.[3] Amongst the genus Caenides, Caenides dacela is the most common and most widely distributed. [2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Raphia and Phoenix species (including Phoenix dactylifera).

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