Teniorhinus harona

Teniorhinus harona
Teniorhinus harona figure 13
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Teniorhinus
Species:	T. harona
Binomial name
Teniorhinus harona (Westwood, 1881)[1]
Synonyms
Pamphila harona Westwood, 1881 Pamphila ruso Mabille, 1891 Oxypalpus [Pamphila] ruso var. merops Weymer, 1901

Teniorhinus harona, the arrowhead orange or arrowhead skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana.^[2] The habitat consists of deciduous woodland and Brachystegia woodland.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing from August to October and from December to May in two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Brachystegia boehmii.

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