Spalgis lemolea, the lemolea harvester or African apefly, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1890.

It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, from Gabon to Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, northern Zimbabwe and Botswana.

[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense savannah (Guinea savannah and miombo woodland), as well as thick riverine bush.

madagascariensis), Pseudococcus, Phenacoccus, Planococcoides, Ferrisiana and Planococcus species.