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404  Aloeides trimeni trimeni
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Distribution: From East Cape to Orange Free State, Gauteng and Mpumalanga
Wingspan: males 22-33 mm females 24-35 mm
Foodplants: Aspalathus species and Hermannia depressa.
Flight Period: Adults are on wing from September to December (with a peak in October) and from January to April (with a peak in February). There are two generations per year.

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.