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Metisella aegipan (Mountain sylph)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Phylum: Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda > Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola > Holometabola > Panorpida > Amphiesmenoptera > Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) > Glossata > Coelolepida > Myoglossata > Neolepidoptera > Heteroneura > Ditrysia > Apoditrysia > Obtectomera > Macrolepidoptera > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > Hesperioidea > Family: Hesperiidae > Subfamily: Hesperiinae > Genus: Metisella

Metisella aegipan (Mountain sylph)  

Metisella aegipan (Mountain sylph), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [photo Willis C.K. ©]