Metisella midas
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Metisella |
Species: | M. midas
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Binomial name | |
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Metisella midas, the golden sylph or Midas sylph, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of damp, grassy edges of evergreen forests and grassy areas on the edges of submontane forests.
Subspecies
[edit]- Metisella midas midas (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: including Shaba)
- Metisella midas malda Evans, 1937 (Nigeria: Obudu Plateau, Cameroon)
References
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- ^ Metisella, funet.fi
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-10-18.