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Clouded Flat
Tagiades flesus
Tagiades flesus, the clouded flat, clouded forester or clouded skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae found across much of the Afrotropical realm.
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Description
The wingspan is 35–47 mm (1.4–1.9 in) for males and 43–49 mm (1.7–1.9 in) for females. The upper surface of the wings is brownish with translucent spots near the apex of the forewings. These spots are larger in the female than in the male. The undersurface of the hindwings is white with a semicircle of irregular black spots. The winter form is lighter in colour than the summer form.
Range & habitat
This species is found in forest areas from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, through Eswatini and to the border of Zimbabwe. and in Western Africa.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 141632.