Artitropa reducta
| Artitropa reducta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Artitropa |
| Species: | A. reducta |
| Binomial name | |
| Artitropa reducta Aurivillius, 1925[1] | |
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Artitropa reducta is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, southern Ethiopia, the coast of Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[2]
Adults are attracted to flowers and have been recorded feeding on the flowers of Brunfelsia species. They are on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Dracaena reflexa var. nitens, Dracaena steudneri and Dracena mannii.
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