This caterpillar likes to live in the seed of Shea fruits and feeds from them. This one is from Benin. The picture was taken under magnification. In reality the length of this caterpilar is about 7mm, but it could still be young. I'm now keeping it in a petri dish, together with a Shea nut and giving it a droplet of water once a week, so I hope I can see the butterfly once as well. But some help about how to keep it alive is also welcome.
Purely a guess, but maybe: Salebria sp. Pyralidae, Lepidoptera
Thanks I’ve found with the help of this name, as I think, confirmation that this indeed is the butterfly http://www.agoatoolkit.com/agoa/English/Select%20Products/Shea/Shea%20Butter%20Technical%20Review/11.pdf
The little problem with your image is, that no single family- or species level character can be deciphered from it; of course some few taxa that do have such, for instance horns or hair pencils, can be safely removed, but there still remain something like 50-100 000 moth (not any butterfly, I am rather sure) species whose larvae fit the image. Certainly the host plant infomation significantly narrows down the likely possibilities, but usually the keys available only apply to pest species and neglect the vastly more numerous non-pest -status owning species. So, I would be careful with the id from larva, and try to rear it as adult. Then you will be on safer grounds.
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