Sarangesa majorella

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Sarangesa majorella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Sarangesa
Species:
S. majorella
Binomial name
Sarangesa majorella
(Mabille, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hyda majorellaMabille, 1891
  • Sarangesa expromptaHolland, 1893

Sarangesa majorella, commonly known as the lesser blue-dusted elfin, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. [2] The habitat consists of forests.

References

  1. Sarangesa, funet.fi
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-01-18.