Savanna Elf

La liste des papillons du Bénin recense environ 470 espèces connues dont aucune n'est endémique. Papilionidae Papilioninae 14 espèces Papilionini Papilio nireus Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio chrapkowskoides nurettini Koçak, 1983 Papilio sosia Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Papilio dardanus Brown, 1776 Papilio phorcas Cramer, 1775 Papilio demodocus Esper, [1798] Leptocercini Graphium antheus (Cramer, 1779) Graphium policenes (Cramer, 1775) Graphium angolanus baronis (Ungemach, 1932) Graphium leonidas (Fabricius, 1793) Graphium adamastor (Boisduval, 1836) Graphium agamedes…

Eretis lugens, commonly known as the savanna elf, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, northern Guinea, northern Sierra Leone, Liberia, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and north-western Zambia. The habitat consists of Sudan savanna, open Guinea savanna, forest margins, forests and dense woodland.

Eretis es un género de mariposas ditrysias perteneciente a la familia Hesperiidae.