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Pteroteinon laufella

Synonyms: Hesperia laufella

Wikipedia Abstract

Pteroteinon laufella, the blue red-eye, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in north-eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, northern Angola and the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests. Adults may spend the night inside the blossoms of Ipomoea species. Adult males occasionally mud-puddle. The larvae feed on Elaeis guineensis and Cocos nucifera.
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Prey / Diet

Cocos nucifera (coconut palm)[1]
Triplochiton scleroxylon[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0