Eronia Cleodora
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''Eronia cleodora'', the vine-leaf vagrant, is a
butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
of the family
Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...
. It is found throughout Africa.''Eronia''
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wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...
is 45–60 mm for males and 50–62 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round in warmer areas with peaks in spring and late summer. The larvae feed on ''
Capparis fascicularis ''Capparis fascicularis'', the zigzag caper-bush,Boon, R. (2010). ''Pooley's Trees of Eastern South Africa; A Complete Guide.'' . is a plant in the Capparaceae family and is native to Africa. Taxonomy This species has multiple synonyms. The s ...
''.


Subspecies

*''Eronia cleodora cleodora'' (southern and eastern Africa) *''Eronia cleodora dilatata'' Butler, 1888 (coast of Kenya and Tanzania)


References

Butterflies described in 1823 Teracolini Taxa named by Jacob Hübner Butterflies of Africa {{Pieridae-stub