Eicochrysops messapus
| Eicochrysops messapus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Eicochrysops |
| Species: | E. messapus |
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| Eicochrysops messapus (Godart, [1824])[1] | |
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Eicochrysops messapus, the cupreous blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family.[2] It is found in Africa. In South Africa it is rare and only known from the northern part of the Limpopo province and northern KwaZulu-Natal.
The wingspan is 17–22 mm for males and 17–24 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round in warmer areas, with peaks in October and March. In cooler areas it is not found from April to September[3]
The larvae probably feed on Thesium species.
Subspecies
- E. m. messapus (West Cape to Orange Free State)
- E. m. mahallakoaena (Wallengren, 1857) (northern East Cape to KwaZulu-Natal, northern Orange Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, the Limpopo province and the North West province)
- E. m. nandiana (Bethune-Baker, 1906) (Kenya, Uganda)
- E. m. sebagadis (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) (highlands of Ethiopia)
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- ↑ Eicochrysops at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- ↑ http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Eicochrysops_messapus/classification/
- ↑ Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005.
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