Actizera stellata - Red-clover Blue

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Photo(s): Bart Wursten, Old Moses Camp, Sirimon Route Mt Kenya (left) and Nyika National Park, Malawi (right).

Species details:

Notes:

One of our smallest butterflies.

Distribution:

Ethiopia, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, eastern DRC, northern Tanzania, northern Malawi, Zambia and rare in Free State, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Literature:

Henning, G.A., Pringle, E.L.L. & Ball, J.B. (1994), Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Winchester, Cape Town, p. 276.
Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 310.
Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Lycaenidae subfamily Polyommatinae, p. 84, Online Encyclopaedia.