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Acleros ploetzi Mabille (Fig. 67, 8 genitalia)
Apaustus leucopygus Plotz, 1879b: 360 (Cameroon); preoccupied by Cyclopides
leucopyga Mabille, 1877. Acleros ploetzi Mabille, 1889: 168; proposed to replace leucopygus Plotz.
Evans (1937: 117) records the range of this species as Guinea to Cameroon and east to Kenya, Tanganyika and Mozambique.
Figures 65-68, 8 genitalia. Fig. 65, Parosrnodes lentiginosa, Kpain, Liberia. Fig. 66, Acleros placidus, Ganta, Liberia. Fig. 67, A. ploetzi, Harbel, Liberia. Fig. 68, A. mackenii, Harbel, Liberia.
Liberia: Maloubli, 1 9 , IV (Picard, 1950: 626); Harbel, 13,1, 1 9 , III, 1 9 , IV, 1 9 , VI, 1 $ , IX; 2 8 , X; Zorzor, 1 8,1 9 , XI; Ganta, 1 8 , VI (all Fox).
Specimens from Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni, Gabon and Uganda are also in Carnegie Museum.
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Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA

Acleros ploetzi

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Acleros ploetzi, the Ploetz's dart or Ploetz's dusky skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and along the coast, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of forests, including secondary growth.

Adults are on wing from July to August and again from February to May.

The larvae feed on Vigna unguiculata.

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Acleros ploetzi: Brief Summary

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Acleros ploetzi, the Ploetz's dart or Ploetz's dusky skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and along the coast, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of forests, including secondary growth.

Adults are on wing from July to August and again from February to May.

The larvae feed on Vigna unguiculata.

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