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667  Tagiades flesus
      Clouded forester
   Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula

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Distribution: southern Africa, in forest areas from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, through Swaziland and to the border of Zimbabwe.
Wingspan: males 35–47 mm females 43–49 mm
Foodplants: Dioscorea cotinifolia.
Flight Period: Year round; in warmer areas with peaks in late summer and autumn.[9] The males select territories and fly rapidly, with the white underside of the wings 'flashing'.[10] The females fly randomly throughout the forest.[11] The adults feed from flowers,[12]
Comments: The larva makes a shelter by cutting part way through a leaf from its edge and folding it over, or by sticking two leaves together with silk.

26 records, from 4/16/1966 to 5/20/2019

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.