Melphina statirides
Species of butterfly
Melphina statirides | |
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Melphina statirides figure 6 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Melphina |
Species: | M. statirides |
Binomial name | |
Melphina statirides (Holland, 1896)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Melphina statirides, the brown-margin forest swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Alchornea cordifolia.
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