Metisella is a genus of skippers, commonly called sylphs, in the family Hesperiidae found in Africa. For other sylphs see genera Astictopterus, Willema, and Tsitana.
Metisella is a genus of skippers, commonly called sylphs, in the family Hesperiidae found in Africa. For other sylphs see genera Astictopterus, Willema, and Tsitana.
==Species== Metisella abdeli (Krüger, 1928) Metisella aegipan (Trimen, 1868) – mountain sylph Metisella alticola (Aurivillius, 1925) Metisella congdoni de Jong & Kielland, 1983 Metisella decipiens (Butler, 1896) Metisella kakamega de Jong, 1976 – Kakamega sylph Metisella kambove (Neave, 1910) Metisella malgacha (Boisduval, 1833) – grassveld sylph Metisella medea Evans, 1937 Metisella meninx (Trimen, 1873) – marsh sylph Metisella metis (Linnaeus, 1764) – gold spotted sylph Metisella midas (Butler, 1894) – Midas sylph Metisella quadrisignatus (Butler, 1894) – four-spot sylph Metisella syrinx (Trimen, 1868) – bamboo sylph Metisella trisignatus (Neave, 1904) – three-spot sylph
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).