Sarangesa brigida

Sarangesa brigida
Sarangesa brigida figure 8
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Sarangesa
Species:
S. brigida
Binomial name
Sarangesa brigida
(Plötz, 1879)
Synonyms
  • Antigonus brigida Plötz, 1879
  • Antigonus brigidella Plötz, 1886
  • Sarangesa aurimargo Holland, 1896

Sarangesa brigida, commonly known as Brigid's elfin, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forest edges and clearings.

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ Sarangesa Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, funet.fi
  2. ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-11-14.