Biology:Gorgyra aretina

Short description: Species of butterfly

Gorgyra aretina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Gorgyra
Species:	G. aretina
Binomial name
Gorgyra aretina (Hewitson, 1878)
Synonyms
Ceratrichia aretina Hewitson, 1878 Apaustus dolus Plötz, 1879 Gastrochaeta albiventris Mabille; Holland, 1896 Gorgyra aretina var. aretinodes Strand, 1913

Gorgyra aretina, the blotched leaf sitter, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5586375 entry