Biology:Ploetzia
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Short description: Genus of butterflies
| Ploetzia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Erionotini |
| Genus: | Ploetzia Saalmüller, 1884 |
| Species: | P. amygdalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Ploetzia amygdalis (Mabille, 1877)[1]
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Ploetzia is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Ploetzia amygdalis, which is found in northern and north-eastern Madagascar .[2] The habitat consists of forests and anthropogenic environments.
The larvae feed on the leaves of coconut palms of the family Arecaceae.
References
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ploetzia. |
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 79
Wikidata ☰ Q1765029 entry
