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Sarangesa brigida

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Sarangesa

Sarangesa brigida

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. 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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