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    Melphina tarace

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of butterfly

    Melphina tarace
    Scientific classification
    Kingdom:
    Animalia
    Phylum:
    Arthropoda
    Class:
    Insecta
    Order:
    Lepidoptera
    Family:
    Hesperiidae
    Genus:
    Melphina
    Species:
    M. tarace
    Binomial name
    Melphina tarace
    (Mabille, 1891)[1]
    Synonyms
    • Pamphila tarace Mabille, 1891

    Melphina tarace, the scarce forest swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

    References

    1. ↑ Melphina at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
    2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae

    Wikidata ☰ Q6813598 entry




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