Common Orange Sprite Butterfly (Celaenorrhinus galenus) at Semliki

''Celaenorrhinus galenus'', the common orange sprite, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, from Cameroon to Ethiopia and to Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults of both sexes feed from flowers growing low down along forest paths, including those of ''Ipomoea palmata''. They are on wing from September onwards, becoming commoner in.. more