Melphina tarace

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Melphina tarace
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M. tarace
Binomial name
Melphina tarace
(Mabille, 1891) [1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila taraceMabille, 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.

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References

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