Sarangesa phidyle Walker 1870

[Sarangesa phidyle (Walker)]
Cyclopides phidyle Walker, 1870: 56 (Hor Tamanib).
=Sarangesa eliminata Holland, 1896: 9; pi. 5, fig. 9 (Abyssinia).
=Sarangesa eliminata deserticola Rebel, 1907: 75 (S. Arabia).
^Sarangesa phidyle from varia Evans, 1937: 43 (Agageh Wells, W. Kordofan).
S. phidyle is recorded by Evans (1937: 43) from Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria in a range that includes most of Africa, but it is not included in known Liberian collections. It should be sought in savanna areas of that country, as well as those of other countries from which it is unrecorded. The Carnegie Museum collection has specimens from Angola, Uganda, Kenya and a single specimen labelled as the type of eliminata from "Natal". This locality designa
tion was assigned by someone other than Holland, and since the specimen fits the description of eliminate!, it is almost certainly the Holland type from Abyssinia.

Sarangesa phidyle, also known as the orange flat or small elfin, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Botswana, south-west Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sudan. In South Africa it is found from the eastern Cape to Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Limpopo Province, the North West Province and Gauteng.

The wingspan is 26–38 mm. Adults are on wing year-round, although they are scarcer in winter and the dry season.

The larvae feed on Barleria and Peristrophe species (including Peristrophe hensii).