Acleros mackenii
| Acleros mackenii | |
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| A. m. instabilis Kakamega Forest, Kenya | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Acleros |
| Species: | A. mackenii |
| Binomial name | |
| Acleros mackenii (Trimen, 1868)[1] | |
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Acleros mackenii, the Macken's skipper or Macken's dart, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from the East Cape to KwaZulu-Natal and in Zimbabwe.
The wingspan is 27–32 mm for males and 29-33 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round but are more common in late summer, autumn and winter than in the hotter midsummer months.[2]
The larvae feed on Rhus species (including Rhus corarius) and Acridocarpus species (including Acridocarpus smeathmanni).
Subspecies
- Acleros mackenii mackenii (possibly Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape Province)
- Acleros mackenii olaus (Plötz, 1884) (Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic Congo, southern Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi)
- Acleros mackenii instabilis Mabille, 1890 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia)
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