Melphina statirides

Melphina statirides, the brown-margin forest swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo.^[2] The habitat of the butterfly consists of forests.

Melphina statirides
Melphina statirides figure 6
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Melphina
Species:	M. statirides
Binomial name
Melphina statirides (Holland, 1896)[1]
Synonyms
Baoris statirides Holland, 1896 Parnara flavifasciola Druce, 1909

The larvae feed on Alchornea cordifolia.