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Platylesches batangae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Platylesches
Species:	P. batangae
Binomial name
Platylesches batangae (Holland, 1894)
Synonyms
Parnara batangae Holland, 1894

Platylesches batangae, the Batanga hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Angola, the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and possibly Nigeria.

The larvae feed on Parinari congensis and Parinari polyandra.

References

1. "Platylesches Holland, 1896" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae

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• Butterflies described in 1894
• Erionotini
• Butterflies of Africa
• Taxa named by William Jacob Holland
• Erionotini stubs