Coeliades pisistratus

Coeliades pisistratus, the two-pip policeman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae that occurs commonly in much of sub-Saharan Africa.

It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, CAR, Angola, DRC, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, northern Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini and Lesotho, and the KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Gauteng, Free State, Northern Cape and North West provinces of South Africa.

[3] During the larval stage of some 40 days, the larva will increasingly modify the leaf of its food plant for protection.

Later instars combine two and later several leaves to form the shelter, which ultimately protects the month-long pupal stage.

[2] The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including Sphedamnocarpus pruriens, Triaspis macropteron, Stephanotis (syn.