Pyrrhiades

Pyrrhiades is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one species, Pyrrhiades lucagus, the western blue policeman, which is found in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.^[2] The habitat consists of coastal forests.

Pyrrhiades
Western blue policeman Pyrrhiades lucagus, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Coeliadinae
Genus:	Pyrrhiades Lindsey & Miller, 1965
Species:	P. lucagus
Binomial name
Pyrrhiades lucagus (Cramer, [1777])[1]
Synonyms
Papilio lucagus Cramer, 1777 Ismene juno Plötz, 1879

Adults are attracted to flowers, bird droppings and mud patches.

The larvae feed on Acridocarpus smeathmanni.