Lepella
| Lepella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
| Genus: | Lepella Evans, 1937 |
| Species: | L. lepeletier |
| Binomial name | |
| Lepella lepeletier (Latreille, [1824])[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lepella is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, Lepella lepeletier, Lepeletier’s Sylph, which is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of submontane grassland.
The larvae feed on Poaceae species.
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