Note:
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Male upperside purple-blue with a brown spot in the forewing and brown wing edges; female largely brown with pale markings. Flying all year round with a peak from November - March |
Distribution:
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Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
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Literature:
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Henning, G.A., Pringle, E.L.L. & Ball, J.B. (1994), Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Winchester, Cape Town, p. 239. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 264. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, File M-Lycaenidae subfamily Polyommatinae, Online Encyclopaedia p. 73. |