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Namaqua Dancer
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Namaqua Dancer

Alenia namaqua

Alenia namaqua, the Namaqua dancer or Namaqua sandman, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is only known from Namaqualand in the Northern Cape of South Africa, from Calvinia north through Kamiensberg into Namibia.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 648588.