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Note: | Although usually mainly orange, they can be partly or almost entrirely whitish. The image shows a female on its preferred larval foodplant Rawsonia lucida. |
Distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and South Africa. |
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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.
Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 100. |
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