''Afrodryas leda'', the autumn leaf vagrant or orange-and-lemon, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

. It is found throughout Africa.''Eronia''
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wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is 50–55 mm for males and 48–56 mm for females. Adults are on the wing year-round in warmer areas with peaks in late summer and autumn. The larvae feed on ''

Capparis tomentosa ''Capparis tomentosa'', the woolly caper bushPooley, E. (1993). ''The Complete Field Guide to Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei''. . or African caper, is a plant in the Capparaceae family and is native to Africa. Distribution Found in bush ...

''.

References

Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 15
as ''cygnophila''
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 21
Butterflies described in 1847 Teracolini {{Pieridae-stub