Biology:Teniorhinus harona

Short description: Species of butterfly

Teniorhinus harona
Teniorhinus harona figure 13
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Teniorhinus
Species:	T. harona
Binomial name
Teniorhinus harona (Westwood, 1881)
Synonyms
Pamphila harona Westwood, 1881 Pamphila ruso Mabille, 1891 Oxypalpus [Pamphila] ruso var. merops Weymer, 1901

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. 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.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7699863 entry