Mylothris agathina agathina - Common dotted border
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten. left: slopes of Mt Belingwe, Zimbabwe; right: Muanza side, Gorongosa national Park.
Species details:
| Notes: | Widespread in many habitats and flying year round. Wet season forms normally have larger marginal dots. | ||||||||
| Distribution: | Angola, southern DRC, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Limpopo, South Africa. | ||||||||
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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. 300. Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 344. |