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Melphina tarace
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Melphina
Species:
M. tarace
Binomial name
Melphina tarace
(Mabille, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila tarace Mabille, 1891

Melphina tarace, the scarce forest swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

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  1. ^ Melphina at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae


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