Gretna carmen, commonly known as the violet crepuscular skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and ZambiaAfrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily HesperiinaeTom Jamonneau, Abubakar S Ringim, Michel Libert, Andrea C Reyes Camargo, Alain Coache, Jérémy Bouyer, Annotated checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Burkina Faso, West Africa—synthesis and new occurrences, Journal of Insect Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2026, ieag018, https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieag018.
The larvae feed on Raphia fanoidra, Phoenix, Borassus and Cocus species.
Subspecies Gretna carmen carmen (Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania) Gretna carmen capra Evans, 1937 (coast of Kenya, Tanzania: coast to the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, Zambia)
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