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Mlawula Nature Reserve - Fauna - Butterflies

(Information from reserve checklist compiled by Chuck Saunders.)

Numbers quoted are from Pennington's Butterflies. Nomenclature updated in July 2008, information provided by Mark Williams.

Photos to illustrate the checklist provided by Christopher K. Willis, I.C. and A. Sharp, Justin Bode, Peter Webb and Kate Braun.

Mlawula Butterflies - Families

 
Hesperiidae

skippers
691 Abantis venosa
   Veined skipper
768 Borbo fatuellus fatuellus
   Long-horned swift
683 Caprona pillaana
   Ragged skipper
661 Coeliades forestan forestan
   Striped policeman
660 Coeliades libeon
   Spotless policeman
663 Coeliades lorenzo
   Coastal Red-tab policeman
662 Coeliades pisistratus
   Two-pip policeman
780 Gegenes niso niso
   Common hottentot
779 Gegenes pumilio gambica
   Dark hottentot
706 Gomalia elma elma
   Green-marbled skipper
736 Kedestes callicles
   Pale ranger
734 Kedestes macomo
   Macomo ranger
685 Leucochitonea levubu
   White-cloaked skipper
742 Parosmodes morantii morantii
   Morant's orange
765 Pelopidas mathias
   Black-banded swift
766 Pelopidas thrax
   White-banded swift
676 Sarangesa phidyle
   Small elfin
698 Spialia colotes transvaaliae
   Bushveld sandman
693 Spialia delagoae
   Delagoa sandman
702 Spialia diomus ferax
   Common sandman
701 Spialia dromus
   Forest sandman
703 Spialia spio
   Mountain sandman
667 Tagiades flesus
   Clouded forester

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