Sarangesa tricerata
| Sarangesa tricerata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Sarangesa |
| Species: | S. tricerata |
| Binomial name | |
| Sarangesa tricerata (Mabille, 1891)[1] | |
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Sarangesa tricerata, the Tricerate Elfin, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of drier forests.
Adult males are attracted to bird-droppings.
Subspecies
- Sarangesa tricerata tricerata (Gambia, Sierra Leone, to Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Sarangesa tricerata compacta Evans, 1951 (western Tanzania)
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