Leona leonora

Species of butterfly

Leona leonora

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Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Genus:  | Leona
Species:  |

L. leonora

Binomial name
Leona leonora

(Plötz, 1879)

Synonyms

* Hesperia leonora Plötz, 1879
* Proteides xanthagyra Mabille, 1891
* Caenides leonora[1]

Leona leonora, the white-spotted recluse, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.[2] Its habitat consists of forests.

## Subspecies

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* Leona leonora leonora (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Tanzania)
* Leona leonora dux Evans, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia)

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Leona leonora.

1. ^ Caenides at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae

Taxon identifiers

Leona leonora|

* Wikidata: Q6525026
* Wikispecies: Leona leonora
* CoL: 3T6G4
* EoL: 182515
* GBIF: 1944555
* iNaturalist: 964395
* IRMNG: 10273842
* LepIndex: 184720
* NCBI: 2847566
* Open Tree of Life: 4234201

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