Eretis lugens — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Hesperiidae/Eretis

At a glance

Occurrence records299

Data sources5

Biological traits0

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Eretis lugens's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility299 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page2 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF299 records

01Narrative

Eretis lugens, the savanna elf, is a 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.Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Pyrginae The habitat consists of Sudan savanna, open Guinea savanna, forest margins, forests and dense woodland. The larvae feed on Asystasia schimperi, Asystasia coromandeliana, Justicia lukepiensis, Dyschoriste perrotetetti and Barleria species.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type299 records

Wild obs. + sensor65

Museum / vouchered234

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO528 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy81% within 1 km

≤100 m 9≤1 km 12≤10 km 5

26 georeferenced · 39 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor65

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy2% within 1 km

≤1 km 1≤10 km 32>10 km 11

44 georeferenced · 190 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence234

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 8 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record	98
National Museum of Tanzanialocation not on record	43
New Haven, US	29
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	17
Cambridge, US	14
African Butterfly Research Institutelocation not on record	4
Helsinki, FI	1
MZLUlocation not on record	1

8 institutions · 207 of 234 vouchered records shown · 27 without an institution code