Prosopalpus styla
Prosopalpus styla | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Prosopalpus |
Species: | P. styla |
Binomial name | |
Prosopalpus styla Evans, 1937[1] | |
Prosopalpus styla, the widespread dwarf skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of marshy open areas in savanna and forests.
Adults males are known to mud-puddle.
The larvae feed on Poaceae species.
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