Sarangesa brigida
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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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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 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 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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