Abantis paradisea - Paradise skipper
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten, wooded grassland above Morumbodzi Falls, Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique.
Species details:
| Notes: | Found throughout the year but most common from August to October. |
| Distribution: | Nigeria, Southern DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal 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. 316. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 372. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae, p. 134, Online Encyclopaedia. |