''Teniorhinus harona'', the arrowhead orange or arrowhead skipper, is a
butterfly in the family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...
. It is found in
Angola, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (
Shaba),
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Zimbabwe and
Botswana.
[Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae]
/ref> 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
''Brachystegia boehmii'', named after the 19th-century German naturalist and collector Richard Böhm, is a flat-topped tree with spreading crown, native to eastern and southern Africa. It forms an important component of miombo woodland, and occu ...
''.
References
Butterflies described in 1881
Erionotini
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
Butterflies of Africa
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