''Celaenorrhinus boadicea'', Boadicea's sprite, is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family

Hesperiidae Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...

. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae
/ref> The habitat consists of forests, but it is also found in agricultural lands with a full canopy.

Subspecies

*''Celaenorrhinus boadicea boadicea'' (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia) *''Celaenorrhinus boadicea howarthi'' Berger, 1976 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ituri, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

References

Butterflies described in 1877

boadicea Boudica or Boudicca (, known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as ()), was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She ...

Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Pyrginae-stub