Pteroteinon caenira
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| Family: | Hesperiidae
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| Species: | P. caenira
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Pteroteinon caenira, the white-banded red-eye, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.
Adults have been recorded mud-puddling.
The larvae feed on Phoenix dactylifera and Washingtonia filifera.
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- ^ Pteroteinon at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1867
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Erionotini stubs