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Lachnocnema durbani - D'Urban's woolly legs
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten: Besna Kobila, Matobo.
Species details:
| Note: | Both larvae and adults feed on the secretions of Coccidae (Soft-scale insects) and Membracidae (Treehoppers) in the order Hemiptera, suborder Homoptera. |
| Distribution: | DR Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, northern Namibia, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, 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. 139. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 150. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Lycaenidae subfamily Miletinae, Online Encyclopaedia. |
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