Platylesches affinissima
Platylesches affinissima | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Platylesches |
Species: | P. affinissima
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Binomial name | |
Platylesches affinissima Strand, 1921[1]
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Platylesches affinissima, the bashful hopper or affinity hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, north-western Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of Guinea savanna.
Adults feed from the flowers of trees and shrubs. They are on wing year round, but are most common from May to August.
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- ^ "Platylesches Holland, 1896" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae