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Genus of butterflies

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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Aeromachini
Genus: Lepella
Evans, 1937
Species: L. lepeletier
Binomial name
Lepella lepeletier
(Latreille, )
Synonyms
  • Hesperia lepeletier Latreille, 1824
  • Cyclopides africanus Mabille; Plötz, 1884
  • Cyclopides romi Robbe, 1892

Lepella is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Lepella lepeletier, commonly known as Lepeletier's sylph, which is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. The habitat consists of submontane grassland.

The larvae feed on Poaceae species.

References

  1. Lepella, funet.fi
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae

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