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Andronymus hero

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Andronymus hero
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Andronymus
Species:
A. hero
Binomial name
Andronymus hero
Evans, 1937[1]

Andronymus hero, the scarce dart, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, and north-western and north-eastern Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on combretum cuspidum, anthonota macrophylla, and anthonota crassifolia.

References

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  1. ^ Andronymus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae