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Eicochrysops hippocrates Fabricius
Hesperia hippocrates Fabricius, 1793 [1793-1794] 3: 288. Cupido hippocrates: Karsch, 1893: 227. Eicochrysops hippocrates: Stempffer, 1950: 404; 1952a: 188; 1954c: 352. Stempffer and Bennett, 1956: 513.
This species occurs over nearly all of Africa south of the Sahara, including Madagascar.
Liberia: Webo (Stempffer, 1950); Kpain, IX, X, XII (Stempffer and Bennett, 1956); no further data, 1 2 (Naysmith); Harbel, 2 $ , I, 1 2 , II, 6 8 , XII; trail near Fisabu, 4 $ , XII; Ganta, 2 $ , VII; Zorzor, 2 s , XI (all Fox).
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bibliographic citation
Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA