Metisella kambove

Metisella kambove
Metisella kambove figure 14
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hesperiidae
Genus:Metisella
Species: M. kambove
Binomial name
Metisella kambove
(Neave, 1910)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cyclopides kambove Neave, 1910

Metisella kambove, the Kambove sylph, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of moist Brachystegia woodland.

Subspecies

  • Metisella kambove kambove (south-western Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Zambia: north-west to the Copperbelt)
  • Metisella kambove gamma de Jong (Nigeria, Cameroon)

References

  1. ↑ Metisella, funet.fi
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae


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