''Leptomyrina gorgias'', the common black-eye, 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

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

. It is found in southern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. The

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 18.5–29 mm for males and 25–32 mm for females. Adults are on wing, year round, with peaks in November and March. The larvae feed on ''

Kalanchoe ''Kalanchoe'' , also written ''Kalanchöe'' or ''Kalanchoë'', is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A ''Kalanchoe'' species was one ...

'', '' Crassula'' and ''

Cotyledon A cotyledon (; ; ; , gen. (), ) is a significant part of the embryo within the seed of a plant, and is defined as "the embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first to appear from a germinating seed." The numb ...

'' species.

Subspecies

*''Leptomyrina gorgias gorgias'' (East Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State, southern Mozambique) *''Leptomyrina gorgias sobrina'' Talbot, 1935 (Somalia, eastern Kenya, Tanzania, northern Mozambique, Zambia) *''Leptomyrina gorgias cana'' Talbot, 1935 (western Kenya, Uganda)

References

Butterflies described in 1790 Hypolycaenini Lepidoptera of Southern Africa Lepidoptera of Tanzania Lepidoptera of Kenya Lepidoptera of Uganda Insects of Somalia {{Theclinae-stub