Appearance
Wingspan: 40–50 mm in males and 45–55 mm in females. The male and female are very similar in appearance. The upperside of the wings is dark brown with a wide, yellow-orange band in the lower two-thirds of the forewing margin and the outer half of the hindwing. The underside of the wings is variegated in shades of brown.Naming
Listed alphabetically:⤷ "E. d. angulata" Aurivillius, 1898 – eastern and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape
⤷ "E. d. brittoni" Gabriel, 1954 – south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen
⤷ "E. d. dryope" – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, central and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo
⤷ "E. d. lineata" Aurivillius, 1898 – Madagascar, Comoros
Distribution
"E. d. angulata" is found in Ethiopia, East Africa, southern DRC, Angola and on the eastern side of South Africa from Limpopo, the Magaliesberg, Mpumalanga, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, to Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape. A photographic record was made further south than Port St Johns during the South African Butterfly Conservation Assessment. "E. d. brittoni" is found in the south-west of the Arabian peninsula. "E. d. dryope" from Sierra Leone to Cameroon and northern DRC. "E. d. lineata" is found in Madagascar.Reproduction
The eggs are covered in longitudinal rows of hairy spines.The larvae are spiny with large head processes and feed on "Tragia glabrata", "Dalechampia capensis", and "Ricinus communis".References:
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