Coeliades chalybe

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| image = Blue policeman (Coeliades chalybe chalybe).jpg

| image_caption = In Ghana

| taxon = Coeliades chalybe

| authority = (Westwood, 1852)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/coeliades/index.html Coeliades], funet.fi

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• Ismene chlorine Westwood, 1852

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Coeliades chalybe, the blue policeman, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Greece, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, from Equatorial Guinea to Angola and to Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_coeliadinae.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Coeliadinae |access-date=2013-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031504/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_coeliadinae.doc |archive-date=2014-11-29 |url-status=dead }} The habitat consists of primary and secondary forests.

Adults of both sexies feed at flowers on forest edges or along forest roads. Adult males also feed from bird droppings.

The larvae feed on Theobroma cacao, Cynanchum, Acridocarpus (including Acridocarpus smeathmanni) and Marsdenia species.