Teniorhinus harona
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Teniorhinus |
| Species: | T. harona |
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| Teniorhinus harona (Westwood, 1881)[1] | |
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Teniorhinus harona, the Arrowhead Orange or Arrowhead Skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Shaba), Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana.[2] The habitat consists of deciduous woodland and Brachystegia woodland.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing from August to October and from December to May in two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Brachystegia boehmii.
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