Semalea pulvina — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Hesperiidae/Semalea

At a glance

Occurrence records139

Data sources6

Biological traits0

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Semalea pulvina's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility139 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page3 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF139 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Semalea pulvina, the silky dart, silky skipper or branded silky skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae The habitat consists of forests. Adults have been recorded feeding on blossoms of Syzygium cordatum. They are on wing from August to September and from February to May. The larvae feed on Siphonochilus aethiopicus and Aframomum species.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding3 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Semalea pulvina has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries2

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type139 records

Wild obs. + sensor2

Museum / vouchered137

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO176 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy50% within 1 km

≤1 km 1≤10 km 1

2 georeferenced

Open the mapobservation + sensor2

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 2>10 km 1

3 georeferenced · 134 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence137

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 7 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record	74
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	49
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record	8
NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record	2
Cambridge, US	1
New Haven, US	1
Helsinki, FI	1

7 institutions · 136 of 137 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code