Platylesches rossii
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Platylesches rossii | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Platylesches |
Species: | P. rossii
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Binomial name | |
Platylesches rossii Belcastro, 1986[1]
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Platylesches rossii, the Loma hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana.[2] The habitat probably consists of the forest/savanna transition zone.
Adult males mud-puddle.
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- ^ "Platylesches Holland, 1896" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae