Celaenorrhinus meditrina
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Family: | Hesperiidae
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Species: | C. meditrina
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Celaenorrhinus meditrina, the large orange sprite, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense secondary growth.
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- ^ "Celaenorrhinus Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1877
- Celaenorrhinus
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Pyrginae stubs