Pteroteinon laufella
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Pteroteinon |
| Species: | P. laufella |
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| Pteroteinon laufella (Hewitson, 1868)[1] | |
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Pteroteinon laufella, the Blue Red-eye, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in north-eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, northern Angola and the central part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults may spend the night inside the blossoms of Ipomoea species. Adult males occasionally mud-puddle.
The larvae feed on Elaeis guineensis and Cocos nucifera.
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