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Platylesches chamaeleon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Platylesches
Species:	P. chamaeleon
Binomial name
Platylesches chamaeleon (Mabille, 1891)
Synonyms
Pamphila chamaeleon Mabille, 1891

Platylesches chamaeleon, the chamaeleon hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Niger. The habitat probably consists of forests and gallery forests.

Subspecies

• Platylesches chamaeleon chamaeleon (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Zambia, possibly Niger)
• Platylesches chamaeleon tero Evans, 1937 (western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

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 1891
• Erionotini
• Butterflies of Africa
• Taxa named by Paul Mabille
• Erionotini stubs