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Pseudargynnis hegemone - False Fritillary
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Photo(s): Alan Gardiner, Forest margin at SDH Tea Estate, Gurué, Mozambique.
Species details:
| Note: | In Zimbabwe it is only known from a single old record. It is fairly common in northern Mozambique. |
| Distribution: | Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, southern DR Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, western Kenya (west), Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique and doubtful in northern Zimbabwe. |
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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. 106. Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Nymphalidae subfamily Limenitinae Tribe Adoliadini, p. 217, Online Encyclopaedia. |
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