{{Short description|Species of butterfly}} {{Speciesbox | image = Metisella midas.jpg | image2 = | taxon = Metisella midas | authority = (Butler, 1894)<ref>[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/heteropterinae/metisella/index.html ''Metisella''], funet.fi</ref> | synonyms = {{Specieslist |Cyclopides midas|Butler, 1894 |Cyclopides xanthometis|Mabille, 1898 }} }}
'''''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.<ref name=ATBUT>{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_heteropterinae.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae |access-date=2012-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083852/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/hesperiidae_heteropterinae.doc |archive-date=2014-08-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The habitat consists of damp, grassy edges of evergreen forests and grassy areas on the edges of submontane forests.
==Subspecies== *''Metisella midas midas'' (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: including Shaba) *''Metisella midas malda'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> (Nigeria: Obudu Plateau, Cameroon)
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Category:Butterflies described in 1894 Category:Skipperlings Category:Butterflies of Africa Category:Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
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