Metisella abdeli
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Metisella |
| Species: | M. abdeli
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| Metisella abdeli (Krüger, 1928)[1]
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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
[edit]- 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
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- ^ Metisella, funet.fi
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
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