Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Melphina | |
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Similar Meza, Bebearia abesa, Euriphene atossa, Melphina, Acraea abdera | ||
Melphina statirides, the brown-margin forest swift, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Alchornea cordifolia.
References
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