Metisella midas

Metisella midas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hesperiidae
Genus:Metisella
Species: M. midas
Binomial name
Metisella midas
(Butler, 1894)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cyclopides midas Butler, 1894
  • Cyclopides xanthometis Mabille, 1898

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

  • 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

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


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