Chaetocneme critomedia, the banded red-eye or banded dusk-flat, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), New Guinea and Australia.
| Chaetocneme critomedia | |
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| C. c. sphinterifera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Chaetocneme |
| Species: | C. critomedia
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| Binomial name | |
| Chaetocneme critomedia (Guérin-Méneville, [1831])
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The larvae feed on various plants, including Blephocarya involucrigera, Annona reticulata, Mallotus polyadenos, Neolitsea dealbata, Syzygium bamagense and Commersonia bartramia.
Subspecies
editExternal links
edit- Australian Insects
- The Life History of Chaetocneme critomedia sphinterifera
- Australian Faunal Directory
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