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11  Bicyclus safitza safitza
      Common bush brown
   Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula

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Distribution: all of Africa, south of the Sahara.
Wingspan: males 40–45 mm females 43-48 mm
Foodplants: Various grasses, including Ehrharta erecta.
Flight Period: Year round.
Comments: Distinctive hopping and bobbing flight along pathways, never flies far when flushed.

70 records, from 3/31/1990 to 5/13/2019

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.