''Capys penningtoni'', the Pennington's protea, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to South Africa, where it is restricted to the

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

Drakensberg foothills. The wingspan is 32–40 mm for males and 34–47 mm for females. Adults are on wing from mid-September to early November. There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on the flower buds of '' Protea caffra'' and '' Protea simplex''.

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Capys (butterfly) Butterflies described in 1932 Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Norman Denbigh Riley Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Theclinae-stub