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Note: | Flying from February to May | ||
Distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa. Fairly common as far as Zimbabwe and Mozambique but a rare vagrant in northern 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. 48. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 36. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Nymphalidae subfamily Danainae, p. 15, Online Encyclopaedia. |
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