Pteroteinon laufella

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Pteroteinon
Species: Pteroteinon laufella
Name

Pteroteinon laufella Hewitson, [1868].

Type Locality: "Old Calabar".

Holotype: BMNH.
Synonymy

Hesperia laufella Hewitson, [1868]: 110, Pl. 58 figs 28,29,30.
Pteroteinon laufella (Hewitson); Watson, 1893: 124; Hemming, 1967: 387; Bridges, 1994: IX.54; Cong et al, 2019: 53.

References

Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. Zoobank. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Hewitson, W.C. 1852–1877. Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies, selected chiefly from the collections of Saunders & Hewitson. London, van Voorst. 5 volumes. 1; 2; 3; 4; 5. Reference page.
Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893(1): 3–132, 3 pls. BHL text, plates. Reference page.

Pteroteinon laufella, the blue red-eye, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in north-eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, northern Angola and the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults may spend the night inside the blossoms of Ipomoea species. Adult males occasionally mud-puddle.

The larvae feed on Elaeis guineensis and Cocos nucifera.
References
Pteroteinon at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae