Biology:Spialia ploetzi

Short description: Species of butterfly

Spialia ploetzi
Spialia ploetzi figures 52, 53
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Spialia
Species:	S. ploetzi
Binomial name
Spialia ploetzi (Aurivillius, 1891)
Synonyms
Hesperia ploetzi Aurivillius, 1891 Hesperia zebra Rebel, 1914 (not Butler, 1888) Spialia rebeli Higgins, 1924

Spialia ploetzi, the forest grizzled skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Triumfetta species.

Subspecies

• Spialia ploetzi ploetzi (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
• Spialia ploetzi occidentalis de Jong, 1977 (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)

Etymology

The name honours Carl Plötz.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7576875 entry