Thestor braunsi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Thestor
- Species
- Thestor braunsi
- Scientific Name
- Thestor braunsi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Thestor braunsi
Thestor braunsi, the Braun's skolly, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Africa, where it is known from the West Cape Nama Karoo from Greyton, the north and south of Swartberg, east to Willowmore and west to the Robertson area.
The wingspan is 26–28 mm for males and 27–30 mm for females. Adults are on wing from October and March in most of the range and in January in Greyton. There are two generations per year.
...Thestor braunsi in languages:
- English
- Braun's skolly
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Thestor barbatus
- Thestor basutus
- Thestor brachycerus
- Thestor braunsi
- Thestor calviniae
- Thestor camdeboo
- Thestor claassensi
- Thestor compassbergae
- Thestor dicksoni
- Thestor dryburghi
- Thestor holmesi
- Thestor kaplani
- Thestor montanus
- Thestor murrayi
- Thestor overbergensis
- Thestor penningtoni
- Thestor petra
- Thestor pictus
- Thestor pringlei
- Thestor protumnus
- Thestor rileyi
- Thestor rooibergensis
- Thestor rossouwi
- Thestor stepheni
- Thestor strutti
- Thestor swanepoeli
- Thestor tempe
- Thestor vansoni
- Thestor yildizae





