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Teniorhinus harona

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Genus
  
Teniorhinus

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Class
  
Insecta

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Species

Teniorhinus harona

Teniorhinus harona, the arrowhead orange or arrowhead skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The habitat consists of deciduous woodland and Brachystegia woodland.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing from August to October and from December to May in two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Brachystegia boehmii.

References

Teniorhinus harona Wikipedia