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Platylesches chamaeleon

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Platylesches

Platylesches chamaeleon, the chamaeleon hopper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Niger. The habitat probably consists of forests and gallery forests.

Subspecies

  • Platylesches chamaeleon chamaeleon (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Zambia, possibly Niger)
  • Platylesches chamaeleon tero Evans, 1937 (western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • References

    Platylesches chamaeleon Wikipedia