Platylesches lamba

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Platylesches lamba
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Platylesches
Species:
P. lamba
Binomial name
Platylesches lamba
Neave, 1910 [1]

Platylesches lamba, the Neave's banded hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), western Uganda, Malawi and northern Zambia. [2] The habitat consists of woodland and open places in the forest zone.

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