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779  Gegenes pumilio gambica
      Dark hottentot
   Mlawula

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Distribution: the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea through Anatolia to the Himalaya and south in the whole of Africa.
Wingspan: males and females about 28 mm
Foodplants: Various grasses, including Ehrharta erecta.
Flight Period: From April to October in multiple generations.

9 records, from 4/19/1955 to 5/14/2013

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.