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Semalea sextilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Semalea
Species:	S. sextilis
Binomial name
Semalea sextilis (Plötz, 1886)
Synonyms
Hesperia sextilis Plötz, 1886 Cobalus corvinus Mabille, 1890 Semalea noctula ab. pusillima Strand, 1913

Semalea sextilis, the dark skipper or silky skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

References

1. Semalea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae

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• Butterflies described in 1886
• Erionotini
• Butterflies of Africa
• Taxa named by Carl Plötz
• Erionotini stubs