Eastern scarlet

Axiocerses tjoane

"Axiocerses tjoane", the eastern scarlet, common scarlet or scarlet butterfly, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in East and southern Africa.
Axiocerses_tjoane  Axiocerses tjoane,Eastern scarlet,Geotagged,Kenya,Summer

Appearance

The wingspan is 24–32 mm for males and 25–34 mm for females. Adults are on the wing year-round.

The larvae feed on "Acacia", "Peltophorum africanum" and "Brachystegia" species.

Naming

*"Axiocerses tjoane tjoane"
─⟶ Range: Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, central and eastern Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini and South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces
⤷ "Axiocerses tjoane rubescens" Henning & Henning, 1996
─⟶ Range: south-eastern DRC to north-western Zambia

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyLycaenidae
GenusAxiocerses
SpeciesA. tjoane
Photographed in
Kenya