Spialia ploetzi

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Spialia ploetzi
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Spialia ploetzi figures 52, 53
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Spialia
Species:
S. ploetzi
Binomial name
Spialia ploetzi
(Aurivillius, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hesperia ploetziAurivillius, 1891
  • Hesperia zebraRebel, 1914 (not Butler, 1888)
  • Spialia rebeliHiggins, 1924

Spialia ploetzi, the forest grizzled skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. [2] The habitat consists of forests.

Contents

The larvae feed on Triumfetta species.

Subspecies

Etymology

The name honours Carl Plötz.

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