Melphina malthina
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Family: | Hesperiidae
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Species: | M. malthina
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Melphina malthina, the white-patch forest swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of primary rainforests.
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- ^ Melphina at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1876
- Erionotini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Erionotini stubs