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Colotis amata calais - Topaz tip, Topaz arab
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten (left and right) and Petra Ballings (centre), Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park.
Species details:
| Note: | A rather weak flyer, close to the ground, often settling on flowers (on Tridax procumbens in the images above). |
| Distribution: | Throughout tropical Africa and South Africa, Madagascar,Iran, Arabia, India and Sri Lanka. |
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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. 287. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 322. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Pieridae subfamily Pierinae "Colotis" group, Online Encyclopaedia p. 3. |
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