• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  English	Mite Sandman

• Synonyms and other combinations

• Latin name	Author
  Hesperia paula	Higgins, 1925
  Spialia paula	Higgins, 1925

• Ernsta (E.) paula is a member of the clade Spialia dromus:

• Species	Author
  Ernsta (E.) dromus	(Plötz, 1884)
  Ernsta (E.) paula	(Higgins, 1925)
  Ernsta (E.) ploetzi	(Aurivillius, 1891)
  Ernsta (E.) secessus	(Trimen, 1891)
  Ernsta (E.) wrefordi	(Evans, 1951)

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	African Butterfly Database
  	The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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