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Zophopetes dysmephila (Trimen, 1868)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Hesperiinae → genus Zophopetes → species Zophopetes dysmephila

Species name(s)

Zophopetes dysmephila (Trimen, 1868) = Pamphila dysmephila Trimen, 1868 = Hesperia mucorea Karsch, 1892 = Hesperia schulzi Plötz, 1882. [9, 187]

Palm Skipper.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:45014

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Ethiopic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • Africa, from South Africa to the south of the Sahara [125].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Phoenix dactylifera and other types of trees [125].

Subspecies of Zophopetes dysmephila

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Text data: Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

References

Comments

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30.01.2014 13:54, Sergei Kotov Corrected data.

Zoogeographical regions: No formalized data → Ethiopic.

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