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Platylesches galesa Hewitson 1877
Description
*232. Platylesches galesa (Hewitson, 1877)
WL 17mm. P. galesa is a forest skipper that can also occur in savanna woodland. It ranges from Senegal to Gabon, eastwards to Uganda, Tanzania, DRC (Shaba), Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and is now reported as a faunistic novelty for Guinea-Bissau. The caterpillars are known to feed on Parinari curatellifolia (Chrysobalanaceae). Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.
Notes
Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Platylesches
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hewitson
- Species
- galesa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platylesches galesa Hewitson, 1877 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Hewitson, W. C. (1877) Descriptions of twenty-five species of Hesperidae [Hesperiidae]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 19, 76 - 85. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937708682096