Abantis elegantula
| Abantis elegantula | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Abantis |
| Species: | A. elegantula |
| Binomial name | |
| Abantis elegantula | |
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Abantis elegantula, the elegant paradise skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon.[2][3][4] The habitat consists of forests, including forest-savanna mosaic.
Adult males mud-puddle.
References
Wikispecies has information related to Abantis elegantula.
- ↑ Abantis, funet.fi
- ↑ Bivar-De-Sousa, A., Vasconcelos, S., Mendes, L. F., Larsen, T. B., Baker, J., & Guilherme, J. L. (2016). Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Zootaxa, 4201(1), 1-77.
- ↑ Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018
- ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-01-22.