Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Hesperiinae | |
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Lepella is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Lepella lepeletier, Lepeletier's sylph, which is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. The habitat consists of submontane grassland.
The larvae feed on Poaceae species.
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