Abantis bamptoni: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Abantis
- Species
- Abantis bamptoni
- Scientific Name
- Abantis bamptoni
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Abantis bamptoni
Abantis bamptoni, Bampton's paradise skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, western Tanzania, northern Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (from Shaba to Mpala). The habitat consists of deciduous woodland, including Brachystegia woodland.
Adults have been recorded feeding from tall purple flowers, as well as from the flowers of Lantana species.
The larvae feed on Uapaca kirkiana, Uapaca nitida and Uapaca sansibarica.
...Abantis bamptoni in languages:
- English
- Bampton’s Paradise Skipper
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Abantis arctomarginata
- Abantis bamptoni
- Abantis bergeri
- Abantis bicolor
- Abantis bismarcki
- Abantis contigua
- Abantis efulensis
- Abantis elegantula
- Abantis eltringhami
- Abantis iruma
- Abantis ituri
- Abantis ja
- Abantis leucogaster
- Abantis lucretia
- Abantis meneliki
- Abantis meru
- Abantis nigeriana
- Abantis paradisea
- Abantis pseudonigeriana
- Abantis rubra
- Abantis tanobia
- Abantis tettensis
- Abantis venosa
- Abantis vidua
- Abantis zambesiaca