Pardaleodes edipus

Pardaleodes edipus
	in Aburi Botanical Gardens, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Pardaleodes
Species:	P. edipus
Binomial name
	Pardaleodes edipus; (Stoll, 1781)
Synonyms
	Papilio edipus Stoll, 1781;

Pardaleodes edipus, the common pathfinder skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[2] The habitat consists of disturbed areas in forests.

Adult males are attracted to bird droppings.

References[]

^ Pardaleodes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2012-10-22.

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