Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Metisella > Metisella aegipan

Metisella aegipan (Mountain Sylph)

Synonyms: Cyclopides aegipan

Wikipedia Abstract

Metisella aegipan, the mountain sylph or Shaka's ranger, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in the mountains of the Cape in South Africa and in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. The habitat consists of wetlands, marshy places, and grassy gullies in montane grassland. The wingspan is 28–34 mm for males and 28–36 mm for females. These small to medium-sized skippers are brown on the upper side and yellow brown on the underside. They have a yellow patch on the upperside forewing. Their flight period is between December and February with a single brood.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0