Eagris denuba

Eagris denuba
male E. d. denuba, Ghana
E. d. obliterata, Ethiopia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Eagris
Species:	E. denuba
Binomial name
Eagris denuba (Plötz, 1879) [1]
Synonyms
Antigonus denubaPlötz, 1879 Eagris decolorMabille, 1890 Eagris lucetia obliterataCarpenter, 1928

Eagris denuba, the cream flat, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan and Ethiopia. ^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males feed from bird droppings and occasionally mud-puddle.

Subspecies

• Eagris denuba denuba - Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon
• Eagris denuba obliterataCarpenter, 1928 - southern Sudan, Ethiopia

References

1. Eagris, funet.fi
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-11-12.