''Aphnaeus marshalli'', the Marshall's highflier, is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. It is found in
Tanzania (from the south-western part of the country to
Kigoma), the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (from the south-eastern part of the country to
Katanga Province
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.
It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika Province, Tanganyika, Hau ...
),
Zambia and north-eastern
Zimbabwe.
The habitat consists of ''
Brachystegia'' woodland.
Both sexes
mud-puddle. Adults are on wing in September and October.
The larvae feed on ''
Julbernardia globiflora'' and ''
Brachystegia boehmii
''Brachystegia boehmii'', named after the 19th-century German naturalist and collector Richard Böhm, is a flat-topped tree with spreading crown, native to eastern and southern Africa. It forms an important component of miombo woodland, and occu ...
''.
References
External links
''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69''d''
Butterflies described in 1910
Aphnaeus
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