Willema tsadica

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Willema tsadica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Willema
Species:
W. tsadicus
Binomial name
Willema tsadicus
(Aurivillius, 1905) [1]
Synonyms
List
  • Cyclopides formosus var. tsadicusAurivillius, 1905
  • Cyclopides ogwanyiBethune-Baker, 1906
  • Cyclopides birbiranusUngemach, 1932
  • Metisella tsadicus(Aurivillius, 1905)

Willema tsadicus, the northern netted sylph, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, north-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon (from the northern part of the country to the Lake Chad area), the Central African Republic, southern Sudan, northern Uganda and south-western Ethiopia. [2]

References

  1. Metisella, funet.fi
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-10-18.