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.Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae The habitat consists of forests.
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.
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