Thestor dryburghi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Thestor
- Species
- Thestor dryburghi
- Scientific Name
- Thestor dryburghi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Thestor dryburghi
Thestor dryburghi, the Dryburgh's skolly, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to South Africa, which is only known from northern Namaqualand in succulent Karoo-covered hills at Kamieskroon to the north-west of Steinkopf in the North Cape.
The wingspan is 34–37 mm for males and 36–38 mm for females. Adults are on wing from August to October. 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