Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 11. Heteropterinae
Author
Cock, Matthew J. W.
Author
Congdon, T. Colin E.
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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Metisella kakamega
De Jong, 1976
Described from a unique male from
Kakamega
Forest by
De Jong
(1976)
, and known only from that locality.
De Jong
(1976)
illustrates the male genitalia
.
MJWC
has collected extensively in
Kakamega
Forest
over four years, and checked all
Metisella
spp. without locating this species.
It
may be very localised, very rare, or both.
Larsen
(1991)
states that the food plants are various grasses, but this is an assumption.