| Fresna cojo | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Fresna |
| Species: | F. cojo |
| Binomial name | |
| Fresna cojo | |
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Fresna cojo, the large Acraea skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and Zambia. [2] The habitat consists of drier open forests and transitional areas into Guinea savanna.
Adults have been recorded on the flowers of Tagetes species.
The larvae feed on Anthonotha crassifolia , Albizia zygia , Andira inermis and Millettia thoningi .
