Ypthimomorpha itonia - Marsh ringlet
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten, Mucheque River, Sera de Gurué below Mt Namuli.
Species details:
| Notes: | Flies throughout the year. Its foodplants are known to be grasses but no particular species as yet have been identified. |
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| Distribution: | Marshy places in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. | |
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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. 72. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Nymphalidae subfamily Satyrinae subtribe Ypthimina, Online Encyclopaedia, p. 24. |