Biology:Pardaleodes incerta
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Pardaleodes incerta | |
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| P. i. murcia, Ghana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Pardaleodes |
| Species: | P. incerta
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| Binomial name | |
| Pardaleodes incerta (Snellen, 1872)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Pardaleodes incerta, the savanna pathfinder skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of the transition zone between forests and savanna and riverine forests.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on Imperata cylindrica.
Subspecies
- Pardaleodes incerta incerta (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, north-western and north-eastern Zambia)
- Pardaleodes incerta murcia (Plötz, 1883) (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo)
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P. i. incerta, Uganda -
P. i. murcia, Ghana
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References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pardaleodes incerta. |
- ↑ Pardaleodes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae". http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_hesperiinae_1.doc.
Wikidata ☰ Q7136513 entry
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