Pteroteinon concaenira
| Pteroteinon concaenira | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Pteroteinon |
| Species: | P. concaenira |
| Binomial name | |
| Pteroteinon concaenira Belcastro & Larsen, 1996[1] | |
Pteroteinon concaenira, the narrow-banded red-eye, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have been recorded feeding on the flowers of Mussaenda species.
The larvae feed on Raphia farinifera.
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