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Metisella is a genus of skippers, commonly called sylphs, in the family Hesperiidae found in Africa. For other sylphs see genera Astictopterus, Willema, and Tsitana.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyHesperiidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
9
Family
Hesperiidae
Collections
NHMUK, USNM
Recorded in
Uganda

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Metisella is a genus of skippers, commonly called sylphs, in the family Hesperiidae found in Africa. For other sylphs see genera Astictopterus, Willema, and Tsitana.

==Species== Metisella abdeli (Krüger, 1928) Metisella aegipan (Trimen, 1868) – mountain sylph Metisella alticola (Aurivillius, 1925) Metisella congdoni de Jong & Kielland, 1983 Metisella decipiens (Butler, 1896) Metisella kakamega de Jong, 1976 – Kakamega sylph Metisella kambove (Neave, 1910) Metisella malgacha (Boisduval, 1833) – grassveld sylph Metisella medea Evans, 1937 Metisella meninx (Trimen, 1873) – marsh sylph Metisella metis (Linnaeus, 1764) – gold spotted sylph Metisella midas (Butler, 1894) – Midas sylph Metisella quadrisignatus (Butler, 1894) – four-spot sylph Metisella syrinx (Trimen, 1868) – bamboo sylph Metisella trisignatus (Neave, 1904) – three-spot sylph

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