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380  Aloeides dryas
      Transvaal copper
   Malolotja

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Distribution: South Africa, where it is known from Swaziland to northern KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, then along the Drakensberg and Wolkberg to the Limpopo Province.
Wingspan: males 26-31 mm females 28-34 mm
Foodplants: Lotononis species.
Flight Period: There are several generations in the warmer months, with adults on wing from September to as late as June with peaks in November and February.

15 records, from 10/15/1967 to 3/20/2010

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.