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Pteroteinon iricolor
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Pteroteinon
Species:	P. iricolor
Binomial name
Pteroteinon iricolor (Holland, 1890)
Synonyms
Proteides iricolor Holland, 1890

Pteroteinon iricolor, the green-winged red-eye, 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 and the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat mostly consists of wet forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding on the flowers of Mussaenda species.

References

1. Pteroteinon 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 William Jacob Holland
• Erionotini stubs