Leona maracanda
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| Family: | Hesperiidae
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| Species: | L. maracanda
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| Leona maracanda (Hewitson, 1876)
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Leona maracanda, the scarce large recluse, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. 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 family Arecaceae.
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- ^ Caenides at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1876
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Erionotini stubs