Coeliades anchises anchises - One-pip policeman

Species details:

Note: A rare butterfly in Southern Africa.
Distribution: Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. Also in Yemen.
Related plant families:
Related plant genera:
MalpighiaceaeAcridocarpus (Larval foodplant)
Related plant species:
Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and SecamonoideaeMarsdenia angolensis (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. 308.
Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 358.
Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Hesperiidae subfamily Coeliadinae, p. 5, Online Encyclopaedia.

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

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths: Coeliades anchises anchises.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/insect-display.php?insect_species_id=403330, retrieved 19 April 2024

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