Sarangesa thecla
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Common elfin | |
|---|---|
| File:Common elfin (Sarangesa thecla thecla) male Nyamebe Bepo.jpg | |
| male S. t. thecla in Ghana | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Sarangesa |
| Species: | S. thecla
|
| Binomial name | |
| Sarangesa thecla | |
| Synonyms | |
| |
_male_Nyamebe_Bepo.jpg){kind=link}
Sarangesa thecla, also known as the common elfin, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of dry semi-deciduous forests.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males are also attracted to bird droppings.
Subspecies
[edit | edit source]- Sarangesa thecla thecla - western Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Sarangesa thecla mabira Evans, 1956 - eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania
References
[edit | edit source]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value)..
Wikispecies has information related to Sarangesa thecla.
Lua error in Module:Taxonbar at line 165: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
