Abantis tettensis - Spotted velvet paradise skipper.

Species details:

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Distribution: Angola, Shaba-DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape South Africa.
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Malvaceae subfamily GrewioideaeGrewia monticola (Larval foodplant)
Literature: Henning, G.A., Pringle, E.L.L. & Ball, J.B. (1994), Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Winchester, Cape Town, p. 315.
Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 370.
Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae, p. 139, Online Encyclopaedia.

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths: Abantis tettensis .
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/insect-display.php?insect_species_id=403270, retrieved 6 October 2024

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