Pardaleodes incerta

Pardaleodes incerta
P. i. incerta, Uganda
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Pardaleodes
Species:
P. incerta
Binomial name
Pardaleodes incerta
(Snellen, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Pamphila incerta Snellen, 1872
  • Hesperia murcia Plötz, 1883
  • Pardaleodes oedipus var. diluta Robbe, 1892

Pardaleodes incerta, the savanna pathfinder skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of the transition zone between forests and savanna and riverine forests.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Imperata cylindrica.

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ Pardaleodes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018
  3. ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2012-10-22.