Metisella formosus
| Metisella formosus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Metisella |
| Species: | M. formosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Metisella formosus (Butler, 1894)[1] | |
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Metisella formosus, the beautiful sylph, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Malawi, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forest edges.
Subspecies
- Metisella formosus formosus (Malawi)
- Metisella formosus linda Evans, 1937 (northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, western Tanzania, western Kenya)
- Metisella formosus mittoni Carcasson, 1961 (southern Ethiopia)
- Metisella formosus nyanza Evans, 1937 (Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo: east to Kivu, north-western Tanzania)
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