Abantis venosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Abantis
- Species
- Abantis venosa
- Scientific Name
- Abantis venosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Abantis venosa
Abantis venosa, the veined skipper or veined paradise skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Zululand, Eswatini, Transvaal, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda.
The wingspan is 36–41 mm for males and 35–45 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round with peaks in late summer from February to April and in spring from August to November.
The larvae feed on Pterocarpus rotundifolius and Pterocarpus brenanii.
...Abantis venosa in languages:
- English
- Veined 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