Platylesches chamaeleon

Platylesches chamaeleon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Platylesches
Species: P. chamaeleon
Binomial name
Platylesches chamaeleon
(Mabille, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila chamaeleon Mabille, 1891

Platylesches chamaeleon, the Chamaeleon Hopper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Niger.[2] The habitat probably consists of forests and gallery forests.

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