Metisella metis

Metisella metis, the gold spotted sylph, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Cape and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Gold spotted sylph
Female, Cape Town
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Metisella
Species:	M. metis
Binomial name
Metisella metis (Linnaeus, 1764)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio metis Linnaeus, 1764 Hesperia metis Cyclopides metis Heteropterus metis

The larvae feed on Stenotaphrum glabrum, Panicum deustum, Ehrharta erecta and Stipa dregeana.

Subspecies

• Metisella metis metis (South Africa: Western Cape Province, from the Cape Peninsula, east to the Swellendam district)
• Metisella metis paris Evans, 1937 (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province)