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Ploetzia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Ploetzia Saalmüller, 1884
Species:	P. amygdalis
Binomial name
Ploetzia amygdalis (Mabille, 1877)
Synonyms
Genus: Systole Mabille, 1885 Species: Hesperia amygdalis Mabille, 1877 Proteides madagascariensis Staudinger; Mabille, 1887

Ploetzia is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Ploetzia amygdalis, which is found in northern and north-eastern Madagascar. The habitat consists of forests and anthropogenic environments.

The larvae feed on the leaves of coconut palms of the family Arecaceae.

References

1. Ploetzia at funet.fi
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae – Subfamily Hesperiinae

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 79

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• Erionotini
• Monotypic butterfly genera
• Hesperiidae genera
• Taxa named by Max Saalmüller
• Taxa described in 1884
• Erionotini stubs