Osmodes laronia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Osmodes
- Species
- Osmodes laronia
- Scientific Name
- Osmodes laronia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Osmodes laronia
Osmodes laronia, the large white-spots, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. The habitat consists of forests.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on Marantochloa cuspidata, Thalia welwitschii and Thaumatococcus daniellii.
...Osmodes laronia in languages:
- English
- Large White-spots
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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