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686  Abantis tettensis
      Spotted velvet skipper
   Mlawula

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Distribution: South West Africa, Botswana, Transvaal, northern Cape, from Zimbabwe to Zaire and in Kenya
Wingspan: males 35–40 mm females 35–45 mm
Foodplants: Grewia flava and Grewia monticola.
Flight Period: From September to April (with a peak from October to November). There is one extended generation per year.

3 records, from 12/21/1949 to 3/18/1994

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.