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Osmodes adosus
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Osmodes
Species:	O. adosus
Binomial name
Osmodes adosus (Mabille, 1890)
Synonyms
Pamphila adosus Mabille, 1890 Pamphila argenteipuncta Mabille; Holland, 1896 Osmodes argenteigutta Holland, 1896 Osmodes schultzei Aurivillius, 1925

Osmodes adosus, the adosus white-spots, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Marantochloa species.

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