Pardaleodes sator

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Pardaleodes sator
Scarce pathfinder (Pardaleodes sator sator) male.jpg
Scarce pathfinder (Pardaleodes sator sator) male underside.jpg
both in Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
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Hesperiidae
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P. sator
Binomial name
Pardaleodes sator
(Westwood, 1852)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cyclopides sator Westwood, 1852
  • Pardaleodes pusiella Mabille, 1877

Pardaleodes sator, the scarce pathfinder skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Oplismenus hirtellus.

Subspecies[]

  • Pardaleodes sator sator (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
  • Pardaleodes sator pusiella Mabille, 1877 (Cameroon: except the west, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania)

References[]

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


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