Biology:Teniorhinus harona
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Teniorhinus |
Species: | T. harona
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Binomial name | |
Teniorhinus harona (Westwood, 1881)[1]
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Teniorhinus harona, the arrowhead orange or arrowhead skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana.[2] The habitat consists of deciduous woodland and Brachystegia woodland.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing from August to October and from December to May in two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Brachystegia boehmii.
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Wikidata ☰ Q7699863 entry
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