Paronymus xanthias

Paronymus xanthias
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Paronymus
Species:	P. xanthias
Binomial name
Paronymus xanthias (Mabille, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
Carystus xanthias Mabille, 1891

Paronymus xanthias, the Yellow Largest Dart, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

• Paronymus xanthias xanthias (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Paronymus xanthius kiellandi Congdon & Collins, 1998 (Uganda, north-western Tanzania, north-western Zambia)

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