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333  Cigaritis natalensis
      Natal bar
   Malolotja Mlawula

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Distribution: South Africa, from the East Cape along the coast to KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, the Orange Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, the Limpopo Province, the North West Province and part of the North Cape. It is also present in Botswana.
Wingspan: males 25-32.5 mm females 26.5-34 mm
Foodplants: Canthium inerme, Clerodendron glabrum and Ximenia caffra.
Flight Period: Year round with peaks from September to October and from March to May.

22 records, from 7/13/1926 to 9/3/2017

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.