Abantis elegantula, the elegant paradise skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon.Bivar-De-Sousa, A., Vasconcelos, S., Mendes, L. F., Larsen, T. B., Baker, J., & Guilherme, J. L. (2016). Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Zootaxa, 4201(1), 1-77.Tom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018 The habitat consists of forests, including forest-savanna mosaic.
Adult males mud-puddle.
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