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Phalanta phalantha aethiopica - African or Common Leopard
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten, Greystone Park Nature Reserve (left) and Twentydales Ext, Epworth, Harare.
Species details:
| Note: | The caterpillar images show it feeding on Flacourtia indica. | ||
| Distribution: | Throughout Southern Africa, except the drier areas such as the Karoo and the Western Cape. | ||
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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. 124. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 100. |
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