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Short description: Species of butterfly
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Platylesches |
| Species: | P. chamaeleon
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| Binomial name | |
| Platylesches chamaeleon (Mabille, 1891)[1]
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Platylesches chamaeleon, the chamaeleon hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Niger.[2] The habitat probably consists of forests and gallery forests.
Subspecies
- Platylesches chamaeleon chamaeleon (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Zambia, possibly Niger)
- Platylesches chamaeleon tero Evans, 1937 (western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
References
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- ↑ "Platylesches Holland, 1896" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
Wikidata ☰ Q7202624 entry
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