Biology:Osmodes omar
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Osmodes omar | |
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| Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary, Ghana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Osmodes |
| Species: | O. omar
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| Binomial name | |
| Osmodes omar | |
Osmodes omar, the obsolete white-spots, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae.[2][3][4] The species was first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1916.[1][2][3] It is widespread in tropical Sub-Saharan Africa (found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania).[3]
The habitat consists of forests but also open degraded areas. The larvae feed on several species of Marantaceae: Marantochloa cuspidata, Thalia welwitschii, and Thaumatococcus daniellii.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Swinhoe, C. (1916). "New species of butterflies and moths from Australia, Africa, and the Indo-Malayan region". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 18 (108): 480 –490. https://archive.org/stream/ser8annalsmagazi18londuoft#page/480/mode/1up.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Savela, Markku. "Osmodes Holland, 1892". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/osmodes/#omar.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Williams, Mark C. (13 January 2021). "Genus Osmodes Holland, 1892". Afrotropical Butterflies. Lepidopterists' Society of Africa. https://www.metamorphosis.org.za/articlesPDF/999/073%20Genus%20Osmodes%20Holland.pdf.
- ↑ "Osmodes omar Swinhoe, 1937". Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6TB67. N.b. The year of description is evidently wrong as C. Swinhoe passed away in 1923.
Wikidata ☰ Q7107193 entry
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