{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}} {{Speciesbox | image =SeitzFaunaAfricanaXIIITaf77.JPG | image_caption = '''k''' | parent_authority = Evans, 1937 | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Lepella lepeletier | authority = (Latreille, [1824])<ref>[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/heteropterinae/lepella/index.html ''Lepella''], funet.fi</ref> | synonyms = *''Hesperia lepeletier'' <small>Latreille, 1824</small> *''Cyclopides africanus'' <small>Mabille; Plötz, 1884</small> *''Cyclopides romi'' <small>Robbe, 1892</small> }}
'''''Lepella''''' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, '''''Lepella lepeletier''''', commonly known as '''Lepeletier's sylph''', which is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.<ref name=ATBUT>{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_heteropterinae.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae |access-date=2012-11-08 |archive-date=2014-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083852/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_heteropterinae.doc |url-status=dead }}</ref> The habitat consists of submontane grassland.
The larvae feed on Poaceae species.
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==External links== *[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=hesperiidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUS Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]
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Category:Skipperlings Category:Monotypic butterfly genera Category:Skipper (butterfly) genera Category:Taxa named by William Harry Evans Category:Taxa described in 1937
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