Biology:Ankola fan

Short description: Species of butterfly

Ankola fan
Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary Kibale Forest, Uganda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Ankola Evans, 1937
Species:	A. fan
Binomial name
Ankola fan (Holland, 1894)
Synonyms
Osmodes fan Holland, 1894 Pardaleodes kamagamba Bethune-Baker, 1906 Pardaleodes scalaris Grünberg, 1910

Ankola is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one species, Ankola fan, the Ankole skipper, which is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and thick vegetation bordering streams. Some cultures use this insect in the cheese-making process.

The larvae feed on climbing grasses of the family Poaceae.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Wikidata ☰ Q4766091 entry