Lepella

Lepella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Genus:	Lepella; Evans, 1937
Species:	L. lepeletier
Binomial name
	Lepella lepeletier; (Latreille, [1824])
Synonyms
	Hesperia lepeletier Latreille, 1824; Cyclopides africanus Mabille; Plötz, 1884; Cyclopides romi Robbe, 1892;

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 Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of submontane grassland.