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king blue
Lepidochrysops tantalus
Lepidochrysops tantalus, the king blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in South Africa.
From the article Lepidochrysops tantalus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It is local to the Drakensberg foothills in the Eastern Cape to the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, Eswatini, then along the escarpment hills to Mpumalanga and Gauteng. It is also found in Limpopo. The wingspan is 30–38 mm for males and 34–40 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to November. There is one generation per year. Despite sharing a common habitat with L. lotana, it can be differentiated by being darker and smaller. It also shows an erratic and unstable flight pattern compared to L.lotana.
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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 672461.