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SWAZILAND'S BIODIVERSITY: Swaziland's Butterflies

142 Charaxes xiphares draconis
Forest king charaxes
Malolotja

Distribution: southern Africa.
Wingspan: males 65�80 mm females 70�95 mm
Foodplants: Scutia myrtina, Rhamnus prinoides, Cryptocarya woodii, Cryptocarya woodii, Scutia myrtina, Chaetachme aristata, and Drypetes gerrardii.

Distribution, food plant and other information from Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005; Butterflies of South Africa's National Botanical Gardens, An illustrated checklist, compiled by Christopher Willis and Steve Woodall; Ivor Migdoll�s Field Guide to the Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Publishers, 1987, with additional information from Pennington�s Butterflies. Larval food plants quoted are restricted to those species recorded from Swaziland. Numbers for each species are from Pennington�s Butterflies.

The Swaziland distribution maps show photographic records from SABCA virtual museum and Kate Braun, as well as museum specimens (Iziko South African Museum, Albany Museum and Natal Museum).

	Nymphalidae Danainae	milkweed butterflies
	Nymphalidae Satyrinae	browns
	Nymphalidae Acraeinae	acraeas
	Nymphalidae Nymphalinae	nymphs, commodores
	Nymphalidae Charaxinae	charaxes
	Libiythieidae	snout butterflies
	Lycaenidae	blues and coppers
	Pieridae	whites
	Papilionidae	swallowtails
	Hesperiidae	skippers

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