Biology:Abantis lucretia

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Lucretia's paradise skipper
NeavePZSL1910Plate3, Abantis lucretia, ♂ & ♀.jpg
male and female, upper and underside
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Abantis
Species:
A. lucretia
Binomial name
Abantis lucretia
H. H. Druce, 1909[1]
Synonyms
  • Abantis lofu Neave, 1910

Abantis lucretia, or Lucretia's paradise skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1909. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adult males mud-puddle.

Subspecies

  • Abantis lucretia lucretia (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon)
  • Abantis lucretia etoumbiensis Miller, 1971 (Congo, south-western Uganda)
  • Abantis lucretia lofu Neave, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, northern Zambia)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4663438 entry