Pardaleodes incerta

Pardaleodes incerta
P. I. incerta
Kibale Forest, Uganda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Pardaleodes
Species: P. incerta
Binomial name
Pardaleodes incerta
(Snellen, 1872)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila incerta Snellen, 1872
  • Hesperia murcia Plötz, 1883
  • Pardaleodes oedipus var. diluta Robbe, 1892

Pardaleodes incerta, the savanna pathfinder skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of the transition zone between forests and savanna and riverine forests.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Imperata cylindrica.

Subspecies

References

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