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Species of butterfly
Metisella abdeli
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Lepidoptera
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Family:
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Hesperiidae
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Genus:
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Metisella
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Species:
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M. abdeli
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Binomial name
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Metisella abdeli
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Synonyms
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- Pamphila abdeli Krüger, 1928
- Cyclopides metis f. orientalis Aurivillius, 1925
- Metisella orientalis f. alpha Evans, 1937
- Metisella orientalis f. beta Evans, 1937
- Metisella orientalis f. gamma Evans, 1937
- Metisella orientalis f. delta Evans, 1937
- Metisella orientalis f. zeta Evans, 1937
- Metisella orientalis f. theta Evans, 1937
- Metisella orientalis f. kappa Evans, 1937
- Metisella orientalis f. lamda Evans, 1937
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Metisella abdeli, the eastern sylph, is a
butterfly in the family
Hesperiidae. It is found in
Cameroon, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Uganda,
Rwanda,
Burundi,
Kenya,
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Zimbabwe and
Eswatini.
[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are on wing year round.
Subspecies
- Metisella abdeli abdeli (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, Eswatini )
- Metisella abdeli elgona Evans, 1938 (near the summit of
Mount Elgon in Kenya and Uganda)
References