Artitropa comus

Artitropa comus
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Artitropa
Species:	A. comus
Binomial name
Artitropa comus (Stoll, 1782)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio comus Stoll, 1782 Papilio helops Drury, 1782 Hesperia ennius Fabricius, 1793 Proteides margaritata Holland, 1890

Artitropa comus, the western nightfighter, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to pawpaw flowers.

The larvae feed on Dracaena species, including , , , Dracaena reflexa var. nitens, and .

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