Sarangesa tertullianus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Sarangesa
- Species
- Sarangesa tertullianus
- Scientific Name
- Sarangesa tertullianus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sarangesa tertullianus
Sarangesa tertullianus, commonly known as the blue-dusted elfin, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba). The habitat consists of forest edges and secondary growth near forests.
Adult males are attracted to flowers and bird droppings and mud-puddle.
...Sarangesa tertullianus in languages:
- English
- Blue-dusted Elfin
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Sarangesa astrigera
- Sarangesa bouvieri
- Sarangesa brigida
- Sarangesa dasahara
- Sarangesa gaerdesi
- Sarangesa haplopa
- Sarangesa loelius
- Sarangesa lucidella
- Sarangesa lunula
- Sarangesa maculata
- Sarangesa majorella
- Sarangesa maxima
- Sarangesa motozi
- Sarangesa motozioides
- Sarangesa pandaensis
- Sarangesa penningtoni
- Sarangesa phidyle
- Sarangesa princei
- Sarangesa purendra
- Sarangesa ruona
- Sarangesa seineri
- Sarangesa tertullianus
- Sarangesa thecla