Mopala

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Mopala
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Erionotini
Genus: Mopala
Evans, 1937
Species:
M. orma
Binomial name
Mopala orma
(Plötz, 1879) [1]
Synonyms
  • Ismene ormaPlötz, 1879
  • Hesperia violascensPlötz, 1882

Mopala is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Mopala orma, the orma, which is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. [2] The habitat consists of wet forests.

Adults have been recorded on the pink flowers of a root parasite growing on a fig tree.

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