Coeliades anchises anchises - One-pip policeman

Species details:

Notes: 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.

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The DRC flora team (2025). Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths: Coeliades anchises anchises.
https://www.drcongoflora.com/speciesdata/insect-display.php?insect_species_id=403330, retrieved 31 August 2025

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