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Teniorhinus harona

Synonyms: Oxypalpus merops; Pamphila harona; Pamphila ruso

Wikipedia Abstract

Teniorhinus harona, the arrowhead orange or arrowhead skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The habitat consists of deciduous woodland and Brachystegia woodland. Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing from August to October and from December to May in two generations per year. The larvae feed on Brachystegia boehmii.
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Prey / Diet

Brachystegia boehmii (Prince of Wales feathers)[1]

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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