Spialia ploetzi

Spialia ploetzi, the forest grizzled skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Spialia ploetzi
Spialia ploetzi figures 52, 53
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Spialia
Species:	S. ploetzi
Binomial name
Spialia ploetzi (Aurivillius, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
Hesperia ploetzi Aurivillius, 1891 Hesperia zebra Rebel, 1914 (not Butler, 1888) Spialia rebeli Higgins, 1924

The larvae feed on Triumfetta species.

Subspecies

• Spialia ploetzi ploetzi (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
• Spialia ploetzi occidentalis de Jong, 1977 (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)

Etymology

The name honours Carl Plötz.