Sarangesa brigida
| Sarangesa brigida |
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| Sarangesa brigida figure 8 |
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| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Arthropoda |
| Class: |
Insecta |
| Order: |
Lepidoptera |
| Family: |
Hesperiidae |
| Genus: |
Sarangesa |
| Species: |
S. brigida |
| Binomial name |
Sarangesa brigida
(Plötz, 1879)[1] |
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| Synonyms |
- Antigonus brigida Plötz, 1879
- Antigonus brigidella Plötz, 1886
- Sarangesa aurimargo Holland, 1896
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Sarangesa brigida, Brigid’s Elfin, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of 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 atra Evans, 1937 (eastern Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
- Sarangesa brigida sanaga Miller, 1964 (Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, western Uganda, north-western Zambia)
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