Mopala
| Mopala | |
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| 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)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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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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External links
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 79 k
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