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Issoria smaragdifera smaragdifera - African queen fritillary
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Photo(s): Wilna Steenkamp, World's View, Troutbeck, Nyanga, Zimbabwe (left) and Bart Wursten, Nyika National Park, Malawi (right).
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| Distribution: | Very locally in the highlands of Malawi, eastern Zambia and eastern Zimbabwe. |
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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. 124. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Nymphalidae subfamily Heliconiinae, Tribe Argynnini, p. 6Online Encyclopaedia. |
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