Ploetzia
| Ploetzia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Ploetzia Saalmüller, 1884 |
| Species: | P. amygdalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Ploetzia amygdalis (Mabille, 1877)[1] | |
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Ploetzia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Ploetzia amygdalis, which is found in northern and north-eastern Madagascar.[2] The habitat consists of forests and anthropogenic environments.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Coconut palms of the Arecaceae family.
External links
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 79
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