Mopala

Mopala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Mopala; Evans, 1937
Species:	M. orma
Binomial name
	Mopala orma; (Plötz, 1879)
Synonyms
	Ismene orma Plötz, 1879; Hesperia violascens Plötz, 1882;

Mopala is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Mopala orma , the Orma, which is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.^[2] The habitat consists of wet forests.

Adults have been recorded on the pink flowers of a root parasite growing on a fig tree.

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