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Osmodes laronia
Kibale Forest, Uganda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Osmodes
Species:	O. laronia
Binomial name
Osmodes laronia (Hewitson, 1868)
Synonyms
Hesperia laronia Hewitson, 1868 Plastingia bicuta Mabille; Holland, 1896

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.

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 1868
• Erionotini
• Butterflies of Africa
• Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
• Erionotini stubs