Osmodes adon

Osmodes adon, the Adon white-spots, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Osmodes adon
Figure 13 male, figure 15 female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Osmodes
Species:
O. adon
Binomial name
Osmodes adon
(Mabille, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila adon Mabille, 1890
  • Osmodes barombina Neustetter, 1916
  • Osmodes adon noda Evans, 1951
  • Osmodes maesseni Miller, 1971

References
  1. Osmodes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae


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