Leona maracanda
Leona maracanda | |
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Leona maracanda figure 4 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Leona |
Species: | L. maracanda |
Binomial name | |
Leona maracanda (Hewitson, 1876) | |
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Leona maracanda, the scarce large recluse, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Zambia.[2]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on a climbing rattan palm in the Arecaceae family.
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