Gorgyra aretina
| Gorgyra aretina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Gorgyra |
| Species: | G. aretina |
| Binomial name | |
| Gorgyra aretina (Hewitson, 1878)[1] | |
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Gorgyra aretina, the Blotched Leaf Sitter, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle.
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