Melphina tarace

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

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