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Celaenorrhinus mokeezi - Large sprite, Christmas forester
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Photo(s): Wilna Steenkamp, Gwala Gwala trail, St Lucia, South Africa.
Species details:
| Note: | Two subspecies are known. Only subsp. separata has been recorded from Southern Mozambique. The only known foodplant is the South African species Isoglossa woodii (Acanthaceae). |
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| Distribution: | Southern Mozambique, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape South Africa. | ||
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| Literature: | Henning, G.A., Pringle, E.L.L. & Ball, J.B. (1994), Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Winchester, Cape Town, p. 310.Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 362. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae, p. 32, Online Encyclopaedia. |
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