Gorgyra aretina Hewitson 1878

Gorgyra aretina (Hewitson) (Fig. 33, S genitalia)
Ceratrichia aretina Hewitson, 1878: 343 (Calabar).
= Apaustus dolus Plotz, 1879b: 358 (Aboe, Guinea).
= Gastrochaeta albiventris Holland, 1896: 35 (ms. name in Staudinger Collection).
= Gorgyra aretina aretinodes Strand, 1912c: 48 (Cameroon).
Judging by the records, aretina seems to be one of the less rare members of Gorgyra, being recorded from Guinea to Cameroon and east to Kenya.
Liberia: Liberia, W. Africa, 1 S (A. C. Good); Zorzor, 1 9 , XT (Fox).
There are other specimens in Carnegie Museum from Cameroon and Uganda.

Gorgyra aretina, the blotched leaf sitter, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle.