Metisella abdeli
Species of butterfly
Metisella abdeli | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Metisella |
Species: | M. abdeli |
Binomial name | |
Metisella abdeli (Krüger, 1928)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Metisella abdeli, the eastern sylph, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Eswatini.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are on wing year round.
Subspecies
- Metisella abdeli abdeli (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, Eswatini )
- Metisella abdeli elgona Evans, 1938 (near the summit of Mount Elgon in Kenya and Uganda)
References
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