''Aphnaeus hutchinsonii'', the Hutchinson's silver spot or Hutchinson's high-flier, is a
butterfly of the family
Lycaenidae. It is found in
South Africa,
Botswana,
Mozambique, from
Zimbabwe through eastern Africa to
Somalia. In South Africa it is found from northern
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
to
Gauteng,
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
and
Limpopo.
The
wingspan is for males and for females. Adults are on wing from September to January with a peak from October to November. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on ''
Acacia robusta'', ''
Burkea africana
''Burkea africana'', the wild syringa ( bm, siri), is a deciduous, medium-sized, spreading, flat-topped tree belonging to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Fabaceae. The genus was named in honour of Joseph Burke, the botanist and col ...
'', ''
Loranthus'' and ''
Viscum'' species. The larvae are attended by ants.
References
External links
''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69''d''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q4779626
Butterflies described in 1887
Aphnaeus
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Roland Trimen