Sarangesa brigida

Sarangesa brigida, commonly known as Brigid's elfin, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. 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.^[2] The habitat consists of forest edges and clearings.

Sarangesa brigida
Sarangesa brigida figure 8
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Sarangesa
Species:	S. brigida
Binomial name
Sarangesa brigida (Plötz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
Antigonus brigida Plötz, 1879 Antigonus brigidella Plötz, 1886 Sarangesa aurimargo Holland, 1896

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