Metisella midas

Metisella midas, the golden sylph or Midas sylph, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[2] The habitat consists of damp, grassy edges of evergreen forests and grassy areas on the edges of submontane forests.

Metisella midas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Metisella
Species:	M. midas
Binomial name
Metisella midas (Butler, 1894)[1]
Synonyms
Cyclopides midas Butler, 1894 Cyclopides xanthometis Mabille, 1898

Subspecies

• Metisella midas midas (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: including Shaba)
• Metisella midas malda Evans, 1937 (Nigeria: Obudu Plateau, Cameroon)