Coeliades libeon Druce 1875

Coeliades libeon (Herbert Druce) (Fig. 11, $ genitalia)
Ismene libeon Herbert Druce, 1875: 416 (Angola).
— Ismene unicolor Mabille. 1877a: 39 (Congo).
= Ismene andonginis Plotz, 1884a: 60 (Pungo Andongo).
= Ismene brussauxi Mabille, 1890b: 221 (French Congo).
The male and female genitalia are both quite distinctive, especially as regards the palmate, anterior extension of the juxta in the male as shown in our figure, a feature unique among the African Hesperiidae. This feature, characteristic as it is, is not shown in Evans' (1937: pi. 8) figure of the male genitalia. This skipper is apparently abundant and widely distributed, being recorded from Ivory Coast (Berger, 1962: 448) to Kenya and south to Transvaal and Natal (Evans, 1937: 12).
Liberian records, apparently the first, are: Harbel, 1 $ , 1 2,1 (Fox).
In addition to the Liberian pair there are also specimens in Carnegie Museum from Cameroon, Gabon, the Congo, Uganda, Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia.

Coeliades libeon, the spotless policeman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. The species was first described by Herbert Druce in 1875. It is found in tropical Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and is an uncommon migrant to South Africa.

The wingspan is 45–52 mm for males and 50–55 mm for females. Adults are on wing from October to May in southern Africa and in the winter in subtropical areas.

The larvae feed on Drypetes (including Drypetes gerrardii), Cassia and Millettia species.