Metisella metis paris - Gold-spotted sylph or -skipper
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten, Ndundu Lodge, Vumba (left) and Tsetsera, Mozambique (right).
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| Distribution: | In wooded areas of southern and eastern parts of southern Africa. |
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| Literature: | Henning, G.A., Pringle, E.L.L. & Ball, J.B. (1994), Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Winchester, Cape Town, p. 321. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Hesperiidae subfamily Heteropterinae, p. 14, Online Encyclopaedia. |