Pentila hewitsoni

Pentila hewitsoni, the Hewitson's cream pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of deep forests.

Pentila hewitsoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Pentila
Species:
P. hewitsoni
Binomial name
Pentila hewitsoni
Synonyms
  • Tingra hewitsoni Grose-Smith and Kirby, 1887
  • Tingra laura Kirby, 1890
  • Pentila laura
  • Tingra limbata Holland, 1893

Adults are attracted to Marantochloa tendrils, feeding from extrafloral nectaries.

Subspecies
  • Pentila hewitsoni hewitsoni (Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria)
  • Pentila hewitsoni limbata (Holland, 1893) (Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mongala)

References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pentila hewitsoni.
Wikispecies has information related to Pentila hewitsoni.
  1. Pentila at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-22.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.