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

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. The habitat consists of forests.

References

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

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• Butterflies described in 1890
• Erionotini
• Butterflies of Africa
• Taxa named by Paul Mabille
• Erionotini stubs