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417.5  Chrysoritis phosphor borealis
      Scarce scarlet
   

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Distribution: KwaZulu-Natal midlands and Mpumalanga
Wingspan: males 24-28 mm females 26-31 mm
Flight Period: Adults are on year round, but mainly in November and April.
Comments: The associated ant species is unknown but is suspected to be an arboreal Crematogaster species.

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.