Apallaga rutilans

Apallaga rutilans, commonly known as the large sprite, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[2] The habitat primarily consists of forests.

Large sprite
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Apallaga
Species:	A. rutilans
Binomial name
Apallaga rutilans (Mabille, 1877)[1]
Synonyms
List Plesioneura rutilans Mabille, 1877 Pterygospidea tergemira Hewitson, 1877 Tagiades woermanni Plötz, 1879 Celaenorrhinus rutilans (Mabille, 1877)