Thestor compassbergae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Thestor
- Species
- Thestor compassbergae
- Scientific Name
- Thestor compassbergae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Thestor compassbergae
Thestor compassbergae, the Compassberg skolly, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to South Africa, where it is only known from grassy inclusions in Nama Karoo on the mountain slopes of the Kompasberg, above Nieu-Bethesda in the East Cape.
The wingspan is 26–29 mm for males and 27–30 mm for females. Adults are on wing in mid-December. There is one generation per year.
...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