Ankola (skipper)

Ankola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Tribe: Erionotini
Genus: Ankola
Evans, 1937[1]
Species: A. fan
Binomial name
Ankola fan
(Holland, 1894)
Synonyms
  • Osmodes fan Holland, 1894
  • Pardaleodes kamagamba Bethune-Baker, 1906
  • Pardaleodes scalaris Grünberg, 1910

Ankola is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one species, Ankola fan, the Ankole Skipper, which is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and thick vegetation bordering streams.

The larvae feed on climbing grasses of the Poaceae family.

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