Sarangesa brigida

Sarangesa brigida
Sarangesa brigida figure 8
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Sarangesa
Species:	S. brigida
Binomial name
Sarangesa brigida (Plötz, 1879) [1]
Synonyms
Antigonus brigidaPlötz, 1879 Antigonus brigidellaPlötz, 1886 Sarangesa aurimargoHolland, 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. ^[2] The habitat consists of forest edges and clearings.

Subspecies

• Sarangesa brigida brigida - Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, western Cameroon
• Sarangesa brigida atraEvans, 1937 - eastern Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania
• Sarangesa brigida sanagaMiller, 1964 - Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, western Uganda, north-western Zambia

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.