• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  English	Mafa Grizzled Skipper
  English	Mafa Sandman

• Synonyms and other combinations

• Latin name	Author
  Pyrgus mafa	Trimen, 1870
  Hesperesta oberth	Aurivillius, 1925

• Spialia mafa is a member of the clade Spialia sertorius:

• Species	Author
  Spialia ali	(Oberthür, 1881)
  Spialia carnea	(Reverdin, 1927)
  Spialia galba	(Fabricius, 1793)
  Spialia lugens	(Staudinger, 1886)
  Spialia mafa	(Trimen, 1870)
  Spialia orbifer	(Hübner, [1823])
  Spialia sertorius	(Hoffmannsegg, 1804)
  Spialia therapne	(Rambur, 1832)

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	African Butterfly Database
  	Lepiforum e. V.
  	The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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