Coeliades anchises

Coeliades anchises, the one-pip policeman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in eastern KwaZulu-Natal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, from Mozambique to Somalia, and in Ethiopia.

One-pip policeman
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Coeliades
Species:	C. anchises
Binomial name
Coeliades anchises (Gerstaecker, 1871)[1]
Synonyms
Ismene anchises Gerstaecker, 1871 Coeliades jucunda Ismene taranis Hewitson, 1876 Hesperia jucunda Butler, 1881

The wingspan is 55–70 mm for males and 65–72 mm for females. Adults are on the wing from October to March in southern Africa.^[2]

The larvae feed on Triaspis glaucophylla, Dregea angolensis, Marsdenia angolensis, Acridocarpus, Tristellateia and Ficus species.

Subspecies

• Coeliades anchises anchises

Range: Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, South Africa and Yemen

• The giant skipper Coeliades anchises jucunda (Butler, 1881)

Range: Oman, Socotra (Yemen), United Arab Emirates