Pardaleodes sator

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Pardaleodes

Pardaleodes sator, the scarce pathfinder skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Oplismenus hirtellus.

Subspecies

Pardaleodes sator sator (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)

Pardaleodes sator pusiella Mabille, 1877 (Cameroon: except the west, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania)

References

Pardaleodes sator Wikipedia

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