Osmodes adosus

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Osmodes adosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Osmodes
Species:
O. adosus
Binomial name
Osmodes adosus
(Mabille, 1890) [1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila adosusMabille, 1890
  • Pamphila argenteipunctaMabille; Holland, 1896
  • Osmodes argenteiguttaHolland, 1896
  • Osmodes schultzeiAurivillius, 1925

Osmodes adosus, the adosus white-spots, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania. [2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Marantochloa species.

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References

  1. Osmodes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae