Pteroteinon laufella
Species of butterfly
Pteroteinon laufella | |
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In Ghana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Pteroteinon |
Species: | P. laufella |
Binomial name | |
Pteroteinon laufella (Hewitson, 1868)[1] | |
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Pteroteinon laufella, the blue red-eye, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in north-eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, northern Angola and the central part of the Democratic Republic of the 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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