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Acleros placidus

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Acleros placidus (Plotz) (Fig. 66, $ genitalia)
Apaustus placidus Plotz, 1879b: 360 (Aburi).
= Acleros biguttulus Mabille, 1889: 167 (Sierra Leone).
= Acleros substrigata Holland, 1894a: 28; pi. 1, figs. 10, 11 (Ogove).
Evans (1937: 117) records this rather variable species from Guinea to Cameroon and east to South Sudan and Kenya; there are specimens in Carnegie Museum from Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni, Gabon, Uganda and Kenya, as well as the material recorded below.
Liberia: Harbel, 1 8 , V; Zorzor, 2 8 , XI; Ganta, 1 8 , VI, 4 8 , 1 2 , VII, 1 5,1 9 , IX; Wanau Forest, 1 8 , III, 1 8 , VIII, 1 9 , X; Yendamalahoun, 1 8 , IV; trail near Fisabu, 3 8 , XII (Fox).
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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