Eretis melania
| Eretis melania | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Eretis |
| Species: | E. melania |
| Binomial name | |
| Eretis melania Mabille, 1891[1] | |
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Eretis melania, the Dusky Elf, Dusky Skipper or Common Elf, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and northern Namibia.[2] The habitat consists of woodland, Guinea savanna, forest margins and forests.
Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers. Adults are on wing from July to September and again from March to April in two generations per year.
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