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Ampittia capenas

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ4748455 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ampittia capenas, the riverine ranger or African bush hopper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae.

Range and habitat

It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of the banks of streams and rivers.

Habits

Adults are on wing from August to October and from February to April.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ampittia capenas” is species of insect. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ampittia, capenas and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ampittia, capenas and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ampittia capenas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.