Xanthodisca Rega
''Xanthodisca rega'', the yellow-disk skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north .... The habitat consists of wet and dry forests and secondary growth. The larvae feed on '' Aframomum sceptrum''. References Erionotini Butterflies of Africa Lepidoptera of West Africa Butterflies described in 1890 {{Erionotini-stub ...
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Paul Mabille
Paul Mabille (1835 – 6 April 1923) was a French naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera and botany. Mabille was born in 1835 in Tours, France. He was a member and President (1876–1877) of the Société entomologique de France and a member of the Société entomologique de Belgique. His Madagascar collections, once in the Charles Oberthur collection, are now in the Natural History Museum, London. He wrote many papers on Neotropical Hesperiidae with Eugène Boullet. Mabille died in April 1923 in Perreux, Loire. Works partial list Wikispecies (see below) provides another list and links to digitised papers by Mabille *1876 Diagnoses d’Hesperiens ''Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France'' (5)213–215. *1876 Sur la classification des Hesperiens avec la description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles. ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' (5)251–274. *1876 Catalogue des Lepidopteres de la cote occidental d’Afrique. ''Bulletin de la Société Z ...
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