Spialia ploetzi

Spialia ploetzi, the forest grizzled skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Spialia ploetzi
Spialia ploetzi figures 52, 53
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Spialia
Species:
S. ploetzi
Binomial name
Spialia ploetzi
Synonyms
  • Hesperia ploetzi Aurivillius, 1891
  • Hesperia zebra Rebel, 1914 (not Butler, 1888)
  • Spialia rebeli Higgins, 1924

The larvae feed on Triumfetta species.

Subspecies
  • Spialia ploetzi ploetzi (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
  • Spialia ploetzi occidentalis de Jong, 1977 (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)

Etymology

The name honours Carl Plötz.

References
  1. Spialia, funet.fi
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae


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