Platylesches chamaeleon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Platylesches
Species:	P. chamaeleon
Binomial name
Platylesches chamaeleon ( Mabille, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
Pamphila chamaeleon Mabille, 1891

Platylesches chamaeleon, the chamaeleon hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Niger. ^[2] The habitat probably consists of forests and gallery forests.

Subspecies

• Platylesches chamaeleon chamaeleon (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Zambia, possibly Niger)
• Platylesches chamaeleon tero Evans, 1937 (western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

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