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Common black sprite
Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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, commonly known as the common black sprite, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. 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)

References

1. "Celaenorrhinus Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-11-12.

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