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Cupidopsis jobatus jobatus - Tailed meadow blue
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten, Besna Kobila, Matobo.
Species details:
| Note: | See Cupidopsis cissus for comparison. |
| Distribution: | Angola, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, northern Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Also in Madagascar and Yemen. |
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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. 275. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 308. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, File-M Lycaenidae subfamily Lycaeninae, Online Encyclopaedia p. 5. |
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