Biology:Metisella tsadicus

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Metisella tsadicus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Metisella
Species:
M. tsadicus
Binomial name
Metisella tsadicus
(Aurivillius, 1905)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cyclopides formosus var. tsadicus Aurivillius, 1905
  • Cyclopides ogwanyi Bethune-Baker, 1906
  • Cyclopides birbiranus Ungemach, 1932

Metisella tsadicus, the northern netted sylph, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, north-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon (from the northern part of the country to the Lake Chad area), the Central African Republic, southern Sudan, northern Uganda and south-western Ethiopia.[2]

References

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