Prosopalpus styla
| Prosopalpus styla | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Prosopalpus |
| Species: | P. styla |
| Binomial name | |
| Prosopalpus styla Evans, 1937[1] | |
Prosopalpus styla, the widespread dwarf skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso[2], Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[3] The habitat consists of marshy open areas in savanna and forests.
Adults males are known to mud-puddle.
The larvae feed on Poaceae species.
References
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- ↑ Prosopalpus, funet.fi
- ↑ 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 Hesperiinae