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155  Charaxes ethalion ethalion
      Coast charaxes
   Malolotja

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Distribution: southern Africa.
Wingspan: males 45–55 mm females 50–63 mm
Foodplants: Albizia species, Peltephorum africanum, Dichrostachys cinerea, Acacia ataxacantha, and Scutia myrtina.

15 records, from 3/27/1986 to 6/19/2013

Distribution, food plant and other information from Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005; Butterflies of South Africa's National Botanical Gardens, An illustrated checklist, compiled by Christopher Willis and Steve Woodall; Ivor Migdoll's Field Guide to the Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Publishers, 1987, with additional information from Pennington's Butterflies. Larval food plants quoted are restricted to those species recorded from Swaziland. Numbers for each species are from Pennington's Butterflies.