| Noble nightfighter | |
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| Z. nobilior, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Zophopetes |
| Species: | Z. nobilior |
| Binomial name | |
| Zophopetes nobilior (Holland, 1896) | |
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Zophopetes nobilior, commonly known as the noble nightfighter, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Gabon, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. In Kenya the introduced coconut has been recorded as food plant. Like other species in its genus, the imago has crepuscular habits. It is known to feed from flowers at dawn.
References
- Zophopetes at funet.fi
- Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
- ^ Williams, Mark C. (2015). Afrotropical Butterflies, 14th edition: Genus Zophopetes Mabille, 1904 – *Zophopetes nobilior (Holland, 1896) (PDF). metamorphosis.org.za. p. 7. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Zophopetes nobilior | |
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