Platylesches chamaeleon

Platylesches chamaeleon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Platylesches
Species:	P. chamaeleon
Binomial name
*Platylesches chamaeleon* (Mabille, 1891)^[1]
Synonyms
Pamphila chamaeleon Mabille, 1891

Platylesches chamaeleon, the Chamaeleon Hopper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Niger.^[2] The habitat probably consists of forests and gallery forests.

Subspecies

Platylesches chamaeleon chamaeleon (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Zambia, possibly Niger)
Platylesches chamaeleon tero Evans, 1937 (western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

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