Spialia ploetzi

Spialia ploetzi
Spialia ploetzi figures 52, 53
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Spialia
Species: S. ploetzi
Binomial name
Spialia ploetzi
(Aurivillius, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hesperia ploetzi Aurivillius, 1891
  • Hesperia zebra Rebel, 1914 (not Butler, 1888)
  • Spialia rebeli Higgins, 1924

Spialia ploetzi, the Forest Grizzled Skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Triumfetta species.

Subspecies

Etymology

The name honours Carl Plötz.

References

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