Eagris denuba

Eagris denuba
	E. d. obliterata, Ethiopia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Eagris
Species:	E. denuba
Binomial name
	Eagris denuba; (Plötz, 1879)
Synonyms
	Antigonus denuba Plötz, 1879; Eagris decolor Mabille, 1890; Eagris lucetia obliterata Carpenter, 1928;

Eagris denuba, the cream flat, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan and Ethiopia.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males feed from bird droppings and occasionally mud-puddle.

Subspecies

Eagris denuba denuba (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
Eagris denuba obliterata Carpenter, 1928 (southern Sudan, Ethiopia)

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