Melphina flavina

Melphina flavina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Melphina
Species: M. flavina
Binomial name
Melphina flavina
Lindsey & Miller, 1965[1]
Synonyms
  • Melphina tarace f. flavina Evans, 1937

Melphina flavina, the Yellow Forest Swift, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

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