Celaenorrhinus proxima

Celaenorrhinus proxima
	Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Celaenorrhinus
Species:	C. proxima
Binomial name
	Celaenorrhinus proxima; (Mabille, 1877)
Synonyms
	Plesioneura proxima Mabille, 1877; Tagiades elmina Plötz, 1879;

Celaenorrhinus proxima, the common black sprite, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

The larvae feed on Mimulopsis species.

Subspecies[]

Celaenorrhinus proxima proxima (Cameroon to Sudan, Uganda, western Tanzania, western Kenya)
Celaenorrhinus proxima maesseni Berger, 1976 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)

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